Chinese supercomputer displaces US machines
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RIKEN’s ROQUO supercomputer shows why hybrid quantum computing depends first on classical GPU, networking, cooling, and software infrastructure.
China has overtaken the US in building the world’s most powerful computer with a breakthrough machine. Shenzhen’s LineShine has topped the TOP500, a ranking of the world’s s
It will be the most powerful computer in the UK, and one of the most powerful in the world.
A supercomputer in Shenzhen was declared the world’s fastest. It uses only standard microprocessors and not the special-purpose chips called graphics processing units.
China took the supercomputer crown by relying on CPUs and not GPUs like other models.
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China’s LineShine supercomputer beats US rivals to top world’s most powerful machine list
For the first time in nine years, a supercomputer from China has come ahead
New system ends an eight-year gap at the top of the TOP500 rankings, a closely watched benchmark of global computing power
China reclaims the world's fastest supercomputer title, surpassing the US with Sugon Nebula-X built for scientific computing, not AI.
The TOP500 list is released twice a year. Chinese supercomputers have topped the list on multiple occasions. Tianhe-1 first claimed the No 1 spot in 2010; Tianhe-2 held the top ranking for six consecutive editions from 2013 to 2015; and Sunway TaihuLight topped the list four times from 2016 to 2017.
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US’ new supercomputer solves 500 years of work in a day for hypersonic research
The US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has unveiled a new $20 million supercomputer
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)’s Slingshot fabric has dethroned 100G Ethernet as the most common interconnect on the TOP500 for the first time, while a mysterious Chinese system running an unknown “LingQi” fabric entered the list, packing more raw compute to knock El Capitan off the top spot.
