TOP500: China’s LineShine Becomes World’s Fastest Supercomputer
Why in the news
The 67th TOP500 list, unveiled at ISC 2026 in Hamburg, Germany, ranked China’s LineShine as the world’s fastest supercomputer, displacing the USA’s El Capitan.
Key facts
- No. 1: LineShine, National Supercomputing Centre, Shenzhen; 2.198 exaflops on 13.79 million cores with custom LX2 processors.
- CPU-only: first system above two exaflops without accelerators.
- El Capitan: second at 1.809 exaflops (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory).
- India: 16th among countries with 7 systems; Shakti Cloud is 32nd at 84.31 petaflops.
- Scale gap: LineShine is roughly 26 times faster than Shakti Cloud.
| Rank | System | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | LineShine | China |
| 2 | El Capitan | USA |
| 3 | Frontier | USA |
| 4 | Aurora | USA |
| 5 | Jupiter | Germany |
About the TOP500 list
- TOP500 ranks the world’s most powerful supercomputers and is published twice a year, with the June list released at ISC.
- Five systems now exceed one exaflop, spread across Asia, North America and Europe.
- India’s other listed systems include PARAM Siddhi-AI, Pratyush, Mihir, Aditya, SahasraT, Arka and Param Brahma, per one report.
- The USA has 161 systems on the list.
Exam angle
- Remember the top five: LineShine, El Capitan, Frontier, Aurora, Jupiter.
- India’s best system is Shakti Cloud, ranked 32nd globally.
- An exaflop is a quintillion calculations per second.