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China’s LineShine supercomputer in Shenzhen has claimed the world’s top spot on the TOP500 list with 2.198 exaflops, surpassing the US El Capitan; it runs on CPUs and consumes about 42.2 MW, with four European systems also in the top 10. The milestone boosts AI research and other advanced science, framed by Beijing as part of a broader “China Opportunity 2.0” amid ongoing debates about subsidies and global tech leadership.
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.
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.
Intel's Aurora supercomputer has made its debut on the TOP500 list, but only as a partial deployment and in the second spot. With a peak double-precision compute target of over two exaFLOPS, Aurora falls short at 585.34 petaFLOPS due to delays and incomplete scaling. The top spot is held by AMD-powered Frontier, while Intel celebrates powering 23 new systems on the TOP500 list. AMD, on the other hand, boasts powering 140 systems and highlights its dominance in efficiency rankings. Aurora is expected to be fully online in 2024, but AMD's El Capitan is already anticipated to surpass its performance.
China's Oceanlite supercomputing system, powered by custom SW26010-Pro processors, is a finalist for the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize. The system, with a theoretical peak performance of 1.5 exaflops, was used to run a time-dependent simulation of a complete jet engine, showcasing its advanced capabilities. The paper also confirmed the system's configuration, including over 100,000 processors and a total of 41.93 million cores. The Oceanlite machine is expected to be presented at the SC23 conference in November, where its performance and potential to surpass other supercomputers, such as the upcoming "El Capitan," will be showcased.