Chinese supercomputer leapfrogs best US machines to be ranked world’s fastest

China’s Line Shine debuts at number one in Top500 – a list sometimes viewed as a national measure of global tech prowess. A supercomputer in China now outranks its US counterparts as the world’s most powerful. It is the first time since 2017 that a Chinese computer has topped a list sometimes viewed as a measure of a nation’s technological prowess.The Line Shine computer in Shenzhen displaced top-ranked US computer El Capitan in the Top500 rankings released on Tuesday. It was Line Shine’s debut on the list. Continue reading...