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LineShine Debuts at No. 1 as the TOP500 Enters a New Global Exascale Era

LineShine debuted as the world's fastest supercomputer at the ISC 2026 conference in Hamburg. The system is located at the National Supercomputing Centre in Shenzhen and utilizes indigenous LX2 processors. While it leads in HPL benchmarks, it lacks GPU accelerators for AI workloads.

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New data specifies LineShine's hardware configuration, performance metrics, and its performance gap in AI-style workloads.

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  1. China's LineShine Claims Top Spot in 67th TOP500 List

    LineShine debuted as the world's fastest supercomputer at the ISC 2026 conference in Hamburg. The system is located at the National Supercomputing Centre in Shenzhen and utilizes indigenous LX2 processors. While it leads in HPL benchmarks, it lacks GPU accelerators for AI workloads.

    What's confirmed:

    • LineShine debuted at No. 1 on the 67th TOP500 list announced June 23, 2026, at the ISC 2026 conference in Hamburg, Germany.
    • The system is installed at the National Supercomputing Centre in Shenzhen.
    • LineShine achieved a sustained Rmax of 2.198 Exaflops, placing it more than 20% ahead of the previous leader, El Capitan.
    • The machine is entirely CPU-based and uses approximately 13.8 million indigenous LX2 processor cores.
    • LineShine recorded 22.004 Petaflops on the HPCG benchmark.
    • Five systems now deliver more than one exaflop on the High Performance Linpack benchmark.
    • NVIDIA hardware powers 81% of TOP500 systems and all of the Green500's top 8.

    Still unconfirmed:

    • Mixed-precision results leave El Capitan stronger on AI-style workloads.
    confidence 100%

  2. China's LineShine Debuts at No. 1 on TOP500 Supercomputer List

    The 67th TOP500 list announced on June 23, 2026, ranks China's LineShine as the world's most powerful supercomputer. It displaced the U.S. system El Capitan to take the top spot. This marks the first time since 2017 that a Chinese machine has topped the rankings.

    What's confirmed:

    • LineShine debuted at No. 1 on the 67th TOP500 list announced June 23, 2026, at the ISC 2026 conference in Hamburg, Germany.
    • The system displaced the U.S. supercomputer El Capitan.
    • LineShine achieved 2.198 Exaflop/s on the High Performance Linpack benchmark.
    • This is the first time since 2017 that a Chinese supercomputer has topped the TOP500 list.
    • LineShine is the first TOP500 system to exceed two exaflops of sustained double-precision performance using only CPUs.
    • The system is installed at the National Supercomputing Centre in Shenzhen and was built by the Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center.
    • LineShine utilizes a custom Chinese processor and the LingKun platform with 13.79 million cores across 304-core LX2 processors running at 1.55 GHz.
    • The computer runs Kylin OS and uses the proprietary LingQi interconnect.

    Still unconfirmed:

    • LineShine is key to developing artificial intelligence models.
    confidence 100%