China's LineShine supercomputer has dethroned El Capitan as the world's number one supercomputer, going straight to the top of the charts after the National Supercomputer Center in Shenzhen (NSCS) submitted its results.
LineShine hit 2.198 FP64 ExaFLOPS in the Linpack benchmark and became the industry's first machine in the Top 500 list to sustain more than 2 ExaFLOPS of double-precision performance using only CPUs. The system is deployed at the National Supercomputing Centre in Shenzhen and was built by the Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center using semi-custom 304-core LX2 processors based on the Armv9 instruction set architecture and running at 1.55 GHz. The machine employs 13.79 million cores in total, uses proprietary LingQi interconnect, and consumes 42.2 MW of power.
