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.