Zetta- Zetta- Zetta is a decimal unit prefix in the metric system denoting a factor of 10 or . The prefix was added as an SI prefix to the International System of Units (SI) in 1991 and has the symbol Z. Zetta is evocative of the Latin numeral , meaning "seven". Therefore it was used to denote the seventh power of 1000. A prefix of the same value, "hepta", was informally introduced a few years before the promulgation of zetta. It was formed from the Greek (), also meaning "seven". "Hepta" never received official sanction and is obsolete. Zeta (), although
Tera 100 Tera 100 Tera 100 is a supercomputer built by Bull SA for the French Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique. On May 26, 2010, Tera 100 was turned on. The computer, which is located in Essonne is able to sustain around 1 petaFLOPs maximum performance and a peak at 1.25 petaFLOPs. It has 4300 Bullx Series S servers ('Mesca'), 140,000 Intel Xeon 7500 processor cores, and 300 TB of memory. The Interconnect is QDR InfiniBand. The file system has a throughput of 500 GB/s and total storage of 20 PB. Tera 100 uses Bull XBAS Linux, a Red Hat Enterprise Linux derivative.