💻 China’s LineShine Tops Supercomputer List Without GPUs

China’s LineShine from Shenzhen leads the TOP500 supercomputer ranking with 2.19 exaflops, 22% faster than the US’s El Capitan.

LineShine uses nearly 14 million computing cores and a custom design without GPUs, avoiding US export limits.

It combines scientific computing and AI, running a decade of weather forecasts over East Asia in 15 hours.

Though top-ranked, LineShine isn’t fastest for all tasks, some large clusters excel at less precise calculations but aren’t listed.

📊@tech