Lineshine: China's Supercomputer Is Number 1 Again

Damn, That Was Fast With Two Trillion Operations, the Lineshine Supercomputer Takes First Place

2026-06-25 Source: dpa 1 min Reading Time

The world's fastest publicly reported supercomputer is once again located in China (for the first time since 2017), as dpa now reports ...

After nine years, China has once again managed to dethrone the U.S. leader in supercomputing. The Lineshine supercomputer was the fastest of all in a standardized test ...(Image: Shuangong) — After nine years, China has once again managed to dethrone the U.S. leader in supercomputing. The Lineshine supercomputer was the fastest of all in a standardized test ...
(Image: Shuangong)

The Chinese supercomputer system called Lineshine is located in the southern Chinese metropolis of Shenzhen and has now displaced the U.S. supercomputer El Capitan from the top spot on the new Top 500 list. This list is published twice a year and is considered, so to speak, a ranking of the most powerful known supercomputers worldwide. The systems are ranked based on their results in a standardized performance test, as the report further states. The latest edition was finally unveiled yesterday at the ISC supercomputing conference in Hamburg.

German Supercomputer Ranks “Only” Fifth

According to the testers, Lineshine achieved 2.198 exaflops. Put simply, this means that the supercomputer can perform over two trillion calculations per second. El Capitan at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California “only” reached 1.809 exaflops. To put this in context: Supercomputers are used for climate modeling, materials research, industrial applications, and artificial intelligence, among other things. The top spot therefore also holds symbolic significance in the ongoing technology race between China and the U.S. Following El Capitan on the new list are Frontier and Aurora from the U.S. The Jupiter Booster at the Jülich Research Center comes in fifth place.

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