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China takes US crown for world’s fastest supercomputer
China has displaced the United States on an influential ranking of the world’s fastest supercomputers, underscoring Beijing’s growing capability to compete with the world’s leading superpower in cutting-edge technology.
China’s LineShine is the most powerful system on the planet, overtaking the US-based El Capitan, according to the biannual ranking announced in Hamburg, Germany, on Tuesday.
culations per second – a 20 percent lead over El Capitan, according to the latest TOP500 list.
LineShine’s position marks the first time a Chinese system has topped the list since Sunway TaihuLight did so in 2017.
El Capitan, based at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, had ranked as the top-performing system since November 2024.
Frontier at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, ranked third, followed by Aurora at the Argonne National Laboratory in Downers Grove Township, Illinois, and Jupiter at the Julich Supercomputing Centre in Julich, Germany.
Other countries represented in the top 20 included the United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland.
Jack Dongarra, an emeritus professor of computer science at the University of Tennessee who is one of the organisers of the TOP500 list, said LineShine’s performance showed China to be capable of holding its own in advanced computing despite US export restrictions on the most advanced chips.
“Export controls may slow China’s access to certain advanced components, but they also provide a strong incentive to develop domestic alternatives,” Dongarra told Al Jazeera, adding that he was “not entirely surprised” that China had taken the lead.
“LineShine suggests that China has responded through large-scale investment and hardware-software codesign,” Dongarra said.
“In the longer term, controls may both constrain China and accelerate its efforts to become technologically self-sufficient.”
Chinese supercomputer powered by homegrown chips tops US models in global ranking
cnn
China has displaced the United States on an influential ranking of the world’s fastest supercomputers, underscoring Beijing’s growing capability to compete with the world’s leading superpower in cutting-edge technology.
China’s LineShine is the most powerful system on the planet, overtaking the US-based El Capitan, according to the biannual ranking announced in Hamburg, Germany, on Tuesday.
culations per second – a 20 percent lead over El Capitan, according to the latest TOP500 list.
LineShine’s position marks the first time a Chinese system has topped the list since Sunway TaihuLight did so in 2017.
El Capitan, based at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, had ranked as the top-performing system since November 2024.
Frontier at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, ranked third, followed by Aurora at the Argonne National Laboratory in Downers Grove Township, Illinois, and Jupiter at the Julich Supercomputing Centre in Julich, Germany.
Other countries represented in the top 20 included the United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland.
Jack Dongarra, an emeritus professor of computer science at the University of Tennessee who is one of the organisers of the TOP500 list, said LineShine’s performance showed China to be capable of holding its own in advanced computing despite US export restrictions on the most advanced chips.
“Export controls may slow China’s access to certain advanced components, but they also provide a strong incentive to develop domestic alternatives,” Dongarra told Al Jazeera, adding that he was “not entirely surprised” that China had taken the lead.
“LineShine suggests that China has responded through large-scale investment and hardware-software codesign,” Dongarra said.
“In the longer term, controls may both constrain China and accelerate its efforts to become technologically self-sufficient.”
Chinese supercomputer powered by homegrown chips tops US models in global ranking
cnn
