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Chinese supercomputer displaces US machines as world's fastest
AP News • • business
Key Points:
- China's LineShine supercomputer in Shenzhen has become the world's most powerful, surpassing the U.S. El Capitan, marking China's return to the top since 2017.
- LineShine achieved 2.198 exaflops, performing over 2 quintillion calculations per second, according to the latest TOP500 ranking.
- El Capitan, located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, now ranks second, followed by two other U.S. supercomputers, while Germany's Jupiter dropped to fifth place.
- LineShine is unique in using only conventional CPUs rather than the GPUs typically employed in high-performance AI computing and consumes about 42.2 megawatts of power.
- The top five supercomputers listed are the only publicly verified exascale machines worldwide.
