China’s LineShine tops the world’s fastest supercomputer ranking
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China’s LineShine overtook the US El Capitan to become the world’s fastest supercomputer on the biannual TOP500 list, attaining 2.198 exaflops on a CPU-only design at Shenzhen’s National Supercomputing Centre. El Capitan had led since November 2024, Frontier remains third, and other nations’ systems populate the top 20, underscoring ongoing tech competition even as AI advances reshape how the rankings are viewed. The TOP500 ranking relies on the LINPACK benchmark, a measure of solving large linear systems.
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