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

South China Morning Post

South China Morning Post

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June 23, 2026

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

China has reclaimed the world’s fastest supercomputer crown for the first time since 2017, according to the latest TOP500 rankings released at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany, on Tuesday. LineShine, built by the National Supercomputing Centre in Shenzhen, achieved 2.198 exaflops of performance – nearly 2.2 quintillion calculations per second – surpassing the previous champion, El Capitan, at California’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which reached 1.809...

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