Return to the top: China’s LineShine beats US El Capitan in Top500 supercomputer rankings

China has regained the title of the world's fastest supercomputer with its new system, LineShine. Announced at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany, LineShine, developed by the National Supercomputing Centre in Shenzhen, achieved a performance of 2.198 exaflops. This surpasses the previous top-ranked supercomputer, El Capitan, from California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which reached 1.809 exaflops. Notably, LineShine is the first supercomputer to exceed two exaflops using only central processing units (CPUs), without the assistance of graphics processing units (GPUs). This marks China's return to the top of the TOP500 rankings for the first time since 2017.