Unit prefix The prefix "bronto", as used in the term "brontobyte", has been used to represent anything from 10 to 10 bytes, most often 10. The SI includes standardised prefixes for 10 (peta), 10 (exa), 10 (zetta) and 10 (yotta). In 2010, an online petition sought to establish hella as the SI prefix for 10, a movement that began on the campus of UC Davis. The prefix, which has since appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Daily Telegraph, "Wired" and some other scientific magazines, was recognised by Google, in a non-serious fashion, in May 2010. Ian Mills, president of the Consultative Committee
Exa Corporation Exa Corporation Exa Corporation is a developer and distributor of computer-aided engineering (CAE) software. Its main product is PowerFLOW, a lattice-boltzmann derived implementation of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), which can very accurately simulate internal and external flows in low-Mach regimes. PowerFLOW is used extensively in the international automotive and transportation industries. Exa was founded in November, 1991. Exa raised about $2.4 million in a series of venture capital investments from April 1993 though 1994 from Fidelity Ventures and individuals. More funding was obtained in 1994, 1996, 1998 and 2005, including Boston Capital Ventures as an investor. In 1999, Stephen A.