LineShine claims world’s fastest supercomputer title, displacing U.S. El Capitan
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China’s LineShine supercomputer, built at Shenzhen’s National Supercomputing Center and running on conventional CPUs, tops the Top500 list with 2.198 exaflops and about 42.2 MW of power, marking the first Chinese lead since 2017. It dethrones the U.S. El Capitan at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, with other top systems in Tennessee, Illinois and Germany making up the upper ranks; the article also notes Europe’s plan for AI gigafactories and concerns about cooling water use and power consumption in large-scale machines.
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- Chinese supercomputer leapfrogs best US machines to be ranked world’s fastest The Guardian
- China Takes Supercomputer Crown From U.S. For First Time Since 2017 The New York Times
- Surprise! Chinese LineShine Takes Number 1 on TOP500 HPCwire
- Return to the top: China’s LineShine beats US El Capitan in Top500 supercomputer rankings South China Morning Post
- China beats US with world's fastest supercomputer, but race not geared for AI work Reuters
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