LineShine claims world’s fastest supercomputer title, displacing U.S. El Capitan
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.