Each Einstein WU is currently shipping with an 'estimated' number of WUS of 20 x 10^12.
I believe this is a holdover from back when Einstein was in beta testing and they were shipping WUs with less data to process.
Seti, for example, estimates their WUs at 27.9 x 10^12. These numbers really only are an attempt to get the [estimated completion time] column on BOINC to be something close to real. (in actuality the Seti WUs real FP ops are closer to 5x10^12)
They are also used by the servers when deciding how many WUs to send to a host when it requests xxxxx seconds of work.
(I could say Trillion, but that would start another argrument ;)
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