The world’s fastest supercomputer is accelerating efforts to bring star power to Earth. (www.ciphernews.com)
from 000@reddthat.com to technology@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 07:25
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A_A@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 17:56 next collapse

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

This is another burning hot California topic.

carl_dungeon@lemmy.world on 16 Jan 00:05 collapse

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.