Current desktop computers have processors that can handle billions of floating-point operations per second, or gigaflops.

A computer can handle billions of iterations.

Though the I.O.C. is a nonprofit organization, it handles billions of dollars from corporate sponsors and broadcast rights.

While the member banks compete with the associations for new card customers, the two groups also collaborate to set fees and handle billions of consumer transactions.

Can handle billions of short reads.

They handle billions of automated transactions, checking plan members' eligibility online and eliminating mountains of paperwork.

They handle billions.

Rook sounded like a portfolio manager who handled billions.

We handle billions of dollars in cash every year at our tracks.

The standards of performance, availability and reliability for these systems, which must handle millions or billions of transactions a day, have been regarded as beyond Microsoft's reach.