Chinese supercomputer leapfrogs best US machines to be ranked fastest
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- China's LineShine supercomputer ranks first in Top500, the first Chinese computer to do so since 2017.
- LineShine runs entirely on CPUs rather than GPUs, consuming about 42.2 megawatts of electricity.
- Supercomputers are over 1,000 times faster than regular computers and used for medical research, climate modeling, nuclear simulations, and more.
- LineShine achieved 2.198 exaflops, performing over 2 quintillion calculations per second.
- The top five exascale computers include LineShine (China), El Capitan and others (US), and Jupiter (Germany).
- The EU plans €20bn gigafactories with over 100,000 AI processors for AI development, aiming for green energy and water recycling.
- Concerns exist that power-hungry datacentres might undermine Europe's climate goals.