I'd think that the standards bodies will come up with something similar to the way the word 'light' was used (in combination with time) instead of kilometers to express extremely large distances -- as in '2 billion light-years' (how many kilometers is that?) away.

The standard bodies may define as the primitve, the computingPower produced in a YOTTA-flops class computer, and next combine it with time. With that, we can then have statements like '2 billion YOTTA-flops-years' -- or the computingPower of a YOTTA-flops class computer after running for 2 billion years, or 2 billion YOTTA-flops class computers running for 1-year. That seems enough until there is need to express something that is more than '2 yotta YOTTA-flops_YOTTA-years'. But, no problem, we have GOTCHA reserved for that.

Could be worse, they could have followed the naming convention for radio bands :

- high frequency
- very high frequency
- ultra high frequency
- super high frequency
- extremely high frequency
- tremendously high frequency

I, for one, am glad that we are not taking TFLOPS to mean "tremendously high FLOPS", presumably moving on to "ridiculously high" and "insanely high" next

Second 2 in a row with > 200,000,000 points in the morning session and yesterday, first '(official/undistorted/sans mishaps driven) > 400,000,000 points day. Visit right hand bottom corner of the Dashboard at http://bit.ly/WCGDSH for the red framed highlights [all]. Nearly 600TFL for the day, this last Monday.

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Always amazed what's construed with what is not. You're mixing a *day* record with a *7 day average*. The old day-record stood at 566TFL for Oct. 10. Monday is most always top day when the office machines come back from loitering over the weekend, delivering often a big boost to the HPF2 quorums (those that could not get complete over the weekend, or are immediately validated, because the first 15 were already delivered for valid quorum), then Tuesday morning rolls the first work week wave after which it slowly starts sliding towards the weekend, when just before there's another office flush.

And yes, IBM internally is pushing their BOINC installs hard (part of the standard catalog). Who's not volunteering the desk machine will be ''enrolled" by joystick. First, funding/managing/maintaining the grid and then footing a power bill on top, but for those having read carefully, to IBM it's a development/research project too i.e. what's learned from the grid may get application in their business ventures and services. Good for them.

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Fair enough, didn't think 'Record' meant '7 day average record' So more like a 3% jump.