TOP500 at ISC’26: We have a New Number 1

Hello you fine Internet folks,Here at ISC 2026 in Hamburg, Germany, we got the 67th TOP500 list where there was a surprise awaiting us. That surprise being a new Number 1 Supercomputer on the TOP500.LineShine Shining on ThroughThe new number one Supercomputer on the TOP500 list is the LineShine Supercomputer in Shenzhen, China. This is the first Chinese submission to the TOP500 in 9 years and they came in swinging with a massive CPU-only system.Starting with the specifications of the CPU that powers the LineShine system, the LX2.SourceThe LX2 is an Armv9-compliant CPU with support for SVE2 and SME. Each core has 32 KB of L1 instruction cache and 32 KB of L1 data cache. Physically, the chip is built from two compute dies, with each die containing four 40-core clusters. Two cores are disabled per cluster, leaving 38 active cores per cluster, or 152 active cores per die. Each cluster is backed by 28.5 MB of L2 cache, giving each die 114 MB of L2 and the full LX2 package 304 active cores…