Byte using six-bit and nine-bit bytes were common into the 1960s. These machines most commonly had memory words of 12, 24, 36, 48 or 60 bits, corresponding to two, four, six, eight or 10 six-bit bytes. In this era, bytes in the instruction stream were often referred to as "syllables", before the term byte became common. The modern "de-facto" standard of eight bits, as documented in ISO/IEC 2382-1:1993, is a convenient power of two permitting the values 0 through 255 for one byte (2 in power of 8 = 256, where zero signifies number as well). The international standard IEC 80000-13
Many-task computing large scale systems will involve substantial technical challenges and will have big impact on science." Some related areas are multiple program multiple data (MPMD), high throughput computing (HTC), workflows, capacity computing, or embarrassingly parallel. Some projects that could support MTC workloads are Condor, Mapreduce, Hadoop, Boinc, Cobalt HTC-mode, Falkon, and Swift., Many-task computing Many-task computing (MTC) in computational science is an approach to parallel computing that aims to bridge the gap between two computing paradigms, high-throughput computing (HTC) and high-performance computing (HPC). MTC is reminiscent of HTC, but it "differs in the emphasis of using many computing resources over short