Chinese Supercomputer LineShine Takes No. 1 in TOP500 Ranking
LineShine's rise to first place breaks a period of US, Japanese, and European dominance in the TOP500 and demonstrates a Chinese supercomputer built entirely with domestic processors and operating system.
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The Chinese supercomputer LineShine reached the top spot in the June 2026 TOP500 ranking, displacing the US's El Capitan. LineShine uses a CPU-only architecture with the Chinese-made LX2 processor, achieving 2.198 exaflops. The system is installed at the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen and is used for atmospheric research, drug discovery, and AI inference.
LineShine, a Chinese supercomputer installed at the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen, took first place in the June 2026 TOP500 ranking. The system achieved 2.198 exaflops using 13.8 million cores across 90 cabinets. Unlike most top supercomputers, which pair CPUs with GPUs, LineShine uses a CPU-only design built around the Chinese-made LX2 processor. Each LX2 CPU has 304 cores and a proprietary matrix accelerator that allows it to handle parallel workloads typically delegated to GPUs. The center said LineShine is already being used for atmospheric and ocean research, engineering simulation, materials science, drug discovery, brain science, AI, and large-scale model inference.
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