China's LineShine Takes First Place in World Supercomputer Rankings for the First Time
The debut of LineShine marks the first time a Chinese system has held the top spot in eight years and the first time exascale systems exist in Asia, North America, and Europe simultaneously.
Reporting from 1 sources: GIGAZINE.
In the June 2026 TOP500 ranking, China's LineShine supercomputer took first place, displacing El Capitan. LineShine achieved 2198 Exaflop/s using only CPUs, the first system to break 2000 Exaflops. It is the first Chinese system to top the list since 2017.
The June 2026 TOP500 list saw China's LineShine supercomputer take first place, ending the consecutive reign of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's El Capitan. LineShine, installed at the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen, is built on a custom LingLun platform with a 1.55 GHz 304-core LX2 processor, a proprietary LingQi interconnect, and the Kylin OS. It achieved 2198 Exaflop/s on the HPL benchmark using 13,789,440 cores, nearly 80% of its theoretical maximum. It is the first system to break 2000 Exaflops using only CPUs and the first Chinese system to top the list since 2017.
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- GIGAZINE スパコン世界ランキングで中国の「LineShine」が初の1位獲得