LineShine becomes the world's fastest and most powerful supercomputer

• China has achieved a significant milestone in the field of High-Performance Computing (HPC). In the 67th edition of the TOP500 list released on June 23, 2026, China’s ‘Lineshine’ supercomputer was declared the world’s most powerful supercomputer.

• Installed at the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen, this system recorded an impressive computing capacity of 2.198 exaflops, capable of performing over two quintillion calculations per second.

•  This achievement has established China's growing technological prowess in the realm of supercomputing on a global scale.

• The TOP500 list ranks the world's 500 most powerful supercomputers. Published twice a year, the list evaluates systems based on the High-Performance LINPACK (HPL) benchmark.

• Exascale computing refers to advanced systems capable of performing at least one exaflop (10¹⁸ floating-point operations per second).

• Such state-of-the-art computing systems play a crucial role in fields such as scientific research, climate and weather forecasting, artificial intelligence, defense technology, and large-scale data analysis.