LineShine Supercomputer Takes Number One Spot on TOP500 at ISC 2026
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George Cozma
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The article reports on the 67th TOP500 list announced at ISC 2026 in Hamburg, revealing a new number one supercomputer: the LineShine system in Shenzhen, China. This marks the first Chinese submission to the TOP500 in nine years, and it is a massive CPU-only system powered by the LX2 processor — an Armv9-compliant CPU with SVE2 and SME support, featuring 32 KB of L1 cache per core.
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· 3 pulledHere at ISC 2026 in Hamburg, Germany, we got the 67th TOP500 list where there was a surprise awaiting us.
The new number one Supercomputer on the TOP500 list is the LineShine Supercomputer in Shenzhen, China.
This is the first Chinese submission to the TOP500 in 9 years and they came in swinging with a massive CPU-only system.
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