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Lawrence Livermore supercomputer is crowned world's speediest

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El Capitan is 22 times faster than lab's previous most powerful supercomputer.

The $600 million behemoth churns through data at 1.742 quintillion calculations per second .

Simulations that take weeks or months on Sierra will be done in just hours or days on ElCapitan .

It would take a million iPhones working on the same problem at the same time to equal what a million phones could do in one second .

The computer will also accelerate research in non-classified fields, experts say.

Supercomputers can be used for earthquake prediction, wildfire modeling and climate change.

They can simulate the behavior of an entire gene of DNA.

"I cannot wait to see what El Capitan allows us to do," says Judy Hill , project leader of Computational Science .

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