China's LineShine supercomputer tops TOP500 list using homegrown Arm-based processors
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Simon Sharwood
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The TOP500 supercomputer list has a new leader: China's LineShine machine at the National Supercomputer Center in Shenzhen, achieving 2.198 Exaflop/s without using processors from Nvidia, Intel, or AMD. The system uses Chinese LX2 processors based on Armv9 designs (a British architecture) and runs KylinOS, a Linux distribution. This highlights China's continued reliance on foreign technology (Arm cores and Linux) despite efforts toward self-sufficiency in high-performance computing.
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· 3 pulledThe TOP500 list of Earth's mightiest supercomputers has a new leader: the 2.198 Exaflop/s LineShine machine housed at the National Supercomputer Center (NSC) in Shenzhen
the machine's LX2 processors are a local effort but use Armv9 designs – so chalk up a win for Blighty, the home of Arm
Use of Arm cores and Linux mean Beijing hasn't broken away from the world
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