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  • You can see the list yourself at https://top500.org/

    Deep link: https://top500.org/lists/top500/list/2026/06/

    by mlmonkey
  • Interesting to see PAC mentioned on the slide, I'd have assumed security features would be a waste of transistors on something so compute-optimized - but maybe they want to isolate workloads from each other?
    by Retr0id
  • I haven't kept up with the latest on supercomputing power, but I recall some years ago there being strong evidence that China had a couple of un-announced supercomputers that would have topped the charts. It makes me wonder what is publicly disclosed vs. actual.
    by chrisss395
  • > We think it is highly likely that these LX2 chiplets are etched using SMIC 7 nanometer processes at the N+3 refinement, and we base that on the fact that the chip only runs at 1.55 GHz. That is nowhere near the 3 GHz that SMIC can push with that process, but it is probably lower to get the memory and core speeds more balanced. [1]

    Based on the ARMv9.2.

    [1] https://www.nextplatform.com/hpc/2026/06/25/a-deep-dive-on-c...

    by flopsamjetsam
  • Extremely impressive accomplishment considering they did this with Chinese interconnects and Chinese chips. This is a wake up call.
    by 2OEH8eoCRo0
  • Additional details in:

    https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08633v1

    https://www.servethehome.com/arm-cpus-take-number-1-in-lates...

    https://www.top500.org/news/lineshine-debuts-no-1-top500-ent...

    by adrian_b
  • TOP500 hasn't been a particularly useful measure of practical computing power in modern systems for many years because what it measures isn't a significant bottleneck in most real systems. It has become a measure of how much money someone is willing to spend for bragging rights. (HPCG is better in that it is a bit more bandwidth focused but still pretty narrow.)

    Most companies with huge systems don't participate.

    by jandrewrogers
  • > Why aren’t these AI companies submitting to the TOP500 to show off their computing prowess?

    my knowledge is 10+ years out of date, but once upon a time if they'd chosen to, Google could have had _several_ entries in the top 10 of the TOP500 list

    It's just poker, they didn't want to tip their hand

    by brianolson

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