China claims to have the world’s most advanced computers

Despite trade restrictions, China has done so he returned fastest computer title in the world for the first time since then 2018. LineShine he pushed Captain from number one on TOP500 sorting. This is despite strict limits on what high-powered computer equipment can be sold to China and US companies, which dominate the list, with America occupying three of the top five positions. LineShine does not use any GPUs, which are usually the backbone of today’s high-end computers.

While reaching the top of the Top500 carries bragging rights, it also serves as a message from the Chinese government to the US. The Trump administration wants to limit access to China chips from companies like NVIDIA and placed on a slope prices on things that go in and out of the country. China responded by building around CPUs that were readily available and common. LineShine uses approximately 45,000 LX2 processors, each with 304 cores running at 1.55GHz, connected over a special high-speed, low-latency network called LingQi.

LineShine is the first supercomputer to cross the 2,000 exaflop barrier and is 20% faster than the second system, El Capitan, on the Top500 list. However, it also uses 42.2 megawatts, much higher and less efficient than El Capitan’s 29.7 megawatts.