China claims world’s fastest supercomputer
A Chinese supercomputer now tops the rankings ahead of its U.S. counterparts as the world’s most powerful for the first time since 2017. LineShine can make up to 2.198 quintillion calculations per second
WORLD’S FASTEST SUPERCOMPUTERS
Exaflops / Cores
EXASCALE
Only five exascale computers in existence
PETASCALE
<1Exaflop
LineShine
National Supercomputing Centre Shenzhen
CHN
2.198
13,789,440
El Capitan
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
USA
1.809
11,340,000
Frontier
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
USA
1.353
9,066,176
Aurora
Argonne National Laboratory
USA
1.012
9,264,128
JUPITER Booster
Forschungszentrum Jülich
GER
1.000
4,801,344
HPC7
Eni Green Data Centre
ITA
0.572
3,461,472
Eagle
National Laboratory of the Rockies
USA
0.478
3,143,520
HPC6
ITA
Eni Green Data Centre
0.442
7,630,848
Fugaku
JPN
RIKEN Centre for Computational Science
0.435
2,121,600
Alps
SUI
Swiss National Supercomputing Centre
0.561
2,073,600
LineShine Built on LX2 – 1.55 GHz ARM 9 CPU – rather than GPU graphics processors usually used for AI – 304 cores per die, in cluster of 20,480 nodes
SENSE OF SCALE
Exaflop: Unit of measurement for performance of processor power
Exa: Quintillion or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000
Flop: Floating Point Operations Per Second
If one person was to make same number of calculations at rate of one every second, it would take 675 billion years to complete task
Source: Top500, Al Jazeera
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