computing

GEANT simulation software

roarscot — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 15:10:56 +0000

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

coluanai — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:26:58 +0000

A computer program; otherwise programme

coluanai — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:49:55 +0000

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.

coluanai — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:51:22 +0000

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.

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 09:36:52 +0000

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