Beijing: China has taken back the title of the world's most
powerful supercomputer from the United States. The supercomputer named
"Line Shine" has taken the first position in the global ranking Top
500.
The special thing is that China has built this supercomputer
entirely with the help of locally produced chips, networking equipment and
software. Before that, China last won this honor in 2017, but at that time some
foreign components were also used in the supercomputer.
Despite US sanctions, China developed local chips and
software and used them in this supercomputer, which is being presented as a
national project to prove that China can make significant progress in modern
technology even without American hardware.
"Line Shine" has been developed using Huawei
chips, local networking equipment and Chinese software. Unlike ordinary
computers, supercomputers consist of thousands of interconnected processors and
are used for complex scientific and research calculations.
Previously, the American supercomputer El Capitan was the
world's most powerful supercomputer, which held the title for about 18 months.
In the global ranking, the performance of supercomputers is
estimated based on exaflops. The Chinese supercomputer is capable of computing
at a speed of 2.2 exaflops per second, while the American El Capitan has a
speed of 1.8 exaflops per second.
Although the chips used in "Line Shine" are not as powerful individually as the American chips, they are integrated more efficiently. However, this supercomputer consumes more energy and its power consumption is 42 megawatts, which is about 40 percent more than the American supercomputer.
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