Those are some crazy numbers they are putting up. botnet? super gpu farm? I mean yochdog has a huge farm but this guy....
Its gotta be a bot net. Just speaking from experience running my 80,000 kh/s farm, I cannot imagine scaling that up by a factor 30. I mean, we are talking 3,500 GPUS.
unless someone cracked the fpga scrypt riddle....
It seems to be new hashing power because the next difficulty adjustment is looking to be a really large one, roughly 18.35% and it is still climbing. I'm putting my money on botnet as well. I don't know how much they're testing or what their units perform at, but:
https://forum.litecoin.net/index.php/topic,2702.0.html mentioned they are pretty much ready to run. It may be a combination of a few things.