The world’s fastest supercomputer is accelerating efforts to bring star power to Earth.

El Capitan can accomplish in one second what would require roughly one million of the fastest smartphones working simultaneously to do, according to Livermore.

… in how much time? It does in one second what a million smartphones do in a day? Minute? Hour?

This is either missing a unit of time or it’s a convoluted way of saying it’s as powerful as a million smartphones.

... 44,544 computer processors, ... is verified to perform 1.742 quintillion calculations per second ...

This is another burning hot California topic.