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Chinese supercomputer surpasses US for world's fastest in first since 2017
Fox Business • • general
Key Points:
- China's LineShine supercomputer surpassed the U.S.'s El Capitan to become the world's fastest, marking China's first top spot since 2017, according to the TOP500 list published in Hamburg.
- LineShine, built by the Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center, operates on over 13 million standard CPUs rather than GPUs, distinguishing it from most high-end supercomputers.
- The TOP500 ranking is based on the High Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark, where LineShine outperformed El Capitan by 20%, showcasing its superior capability in solving dense linear equations.
- LineShine became the fifth supercomputer globally to achieve exascale capacity, capable of performing one quintillion calculations per second.
- Despite China's top position, the U.S. continues to dominate the overall supercomputer rankings, holding the second, third, and fourth places with El Capitan, Frontier, and Aurora.
