China’s LineShine supercomputer takes the No. 1 spot on the latest TOP500 ranking of the world’s fastest supercomputers, released at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg. The Shenzhen-based system replaces the US supercomputer El Capitan, which had held the top position in the previous TOP500 edition. Multiple outlets report that LineShine debuts on the list and posts a sustained performance of about 2.198 exaflops on the High Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark, surpassing El Capitan’s reported 1.809 exaflops. Coverage also emphasizes that LineShine is built around CPUs rather than GPUs, using Chinese-developed processors based on Armv9-based LX2 cores. Reports describe millions of CPU cores and custom interconnect and software components, presenting the system as part of China’s push for domestic computing capabilities. Several articles note that the TOP500 list focuses on HPL performance and that “world’s fastest” on this metric does not necessarily translate directly to all AI or other workloads, with some discussion of alternative benchmarks included in the broader ranking ecosystem.
China’s LineShine tops TOP500, displacing US supercomputer El Capitan
China’s LineShine supercomputer takes the No. 1 spot on the latest TOP500 ranking of the world’s fastest supercomputers, released at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg. The Shenzhe...
- LineShine, installed in Shenzhen, debuts at No. 1 on the latest TOP500 supercomputer ranking.
- The system displaces the US supercomputer El Capitan from the top position.
- LineShine is reported to deliver about 2.198 exaflops on the HPL benchmark, compared with El Capitan’s about 1.809 exaflops.
- LineShine is presented as GPU-free, relying on CPUs with Chinese processors.
- China leads the TOP500 for the first time since 2017, according to the reporting.
The speedy machine displaces the U.S.’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s El Capitan at the top of the TOP500 rankings of the world’s fastest supercomputers
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1 month agoA supercomputer in Shenzhen just topped the world rankings for the first time since 2017. The headline is the speed. The real story is the silicon: it runs without a single chip from Nvidia, AMD or Intel. China has taken back the supercomputing crown. On Tuesday, organisers declared a machine called LineShine the world’s fastest […] This story continues at The Next Web
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