{"id":7869,"date":"2026-07-10T08:43:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T05:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.schooler.org.ua\/uk-ualineshine-posila-pershe-mistse-v-rejtingu-superkompjuteriv-ru\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T08:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T05:43:15","slug":"uk-ualineshine-posila-pershe-mistse-v-rejtingu-superkompjuteriv-ru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schooler.org.ua\/en\/uk-ualineshine-posila-pershe-mistse-v-rejtingu-superkompjuteriv-ru\/","title":{"rendered":"LineShine Just Took The Top Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First time ever.<\/p>\n<p>China has the world&#8217;s fastest supercomputer. The name? <strong>LineShine<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It sat at number one in the latest <strong>TOP500<\/strong> rankings. These come out twice a year to crow about speed. Shenzhen built it. The hardware lives at the National Supercomputing Center in that same city. Under the hood, there are 13.79 million cores. All packed into 304-core <strong>LX2 processors<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The previous king, El Capitan from Lawrence Livermore National Lab in California, had to settle for silver. It\u2019s not a close loss for LineShine though. El Capitan used to run circles around everything until this moment.<\/p>\n<p>Here is how the list usually breaks down. Since 1993\u2014originally a chat at a conference in Mannheim\u2014the U.S. has dominated these charts. They run the <strong>High-Performance Linpack<\/strong> benchmark. It\u2019s just fancy talk for &#8220;how many complex math problems can you solve in a second.&#8221; The score is in exaflops. One exaflop means one quintillion operations per second. A billion billion. Get it? Good.<\/p>\n<p>LineShine hit <strong>2.198 exaflops<\/strong> on the test. That is impressive enough. But the machine says it could go further. Peak performance? Maybe <strong>2.736<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>El Capitan claimed it <em>could<\/em> hit <strong>2.821<\/strong> but only delivered <strong>1.809<\/strong> when the stopwatch was running. Maybe it had a bad day.<\/p>\n<p>Who else is near the top?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Frontier at Oak Ridge in Tennessee ran <strong>1.353<\/strong> <\/li>\n<li>Aurora in Illinois posted <strong>1.012<\/strong> <\/li>\n<li>JUPITER Booster in Germany clocked roughly <strong>1.0<\/strong> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They are all fast. All of them. But the conversation changes if you look away from silicon chips. Toward qubits.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum computers exist now. They don\u2019t care about exaflops because they don\u2019t speak binary the same way classical machines do. Some researchers swear their quantum devices are billions of times faster at specific tasks. It is apples and oranges mostly. Hard to compare. Maybe irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe the clock is ticking.<\/p>\n<p>Will these exaflop beasts stay kings? Hard to say.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The metric itself might not matter forever.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First time ever. China has the world&#8217;s fastest supercomputer. The name? LineShine. It sat at number one in the latest TOP500 rankings. These come out twice a year to crow about speed. Shenzhen built it. The hardware lives at the National Supercomputing Center in that same city. Under the hood, there are 13.79 million cores. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schooler.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schooler.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schooler.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schooler.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schooler.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.schooler.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schooler.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schooler.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schooler.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schooler.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}