computing

GEANT simulation software

GEometry ANd Tracking, a series of simulation software designed to describe the passage of fundamental particles through matter

Not to be confused with the GÉANT network

Lower case. Not "Petabyte" or, worse, "PetaByte"

A unit of information equal to one thousand million million (10¹⁵) or, strictly, 2⁵⁰ bytes.

Almost overnight, companies are transitioning from storing gigabytes of data to managing terabytes, and even petabytes, of information.

A computer program; otherwise programme

A free, open-source device-oriented controls toolkit for controlling any kind of hardware or software and building SCADA systems

Acronym doesn’t need spelling out for the CERN Courier

Lower case. Not "Terabyte" or, worse, "TeraByte"

A unit of information equal to one million million (10¹²) or, strictly, 2⁴⁰ bytes.

There are an estimated one million terabytes of online information, and this amount is growing with every new web page that is posted.