I love a supercomputer reveal, and this one's a little different than most. China's National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen has announced its LineShine system, a machine that aims to deliver 2 exaflops of performance once it's fully constructed.
That's an impressive figure, and would make LineShine one of the fastest exascale supercomputers in the world (via HPCWire). This one, though, is planned to be an all-CPU system—in contrast to virtually all of the others on the Top500 list, which make use of AMD or Nvidia GPUs to accelerate proceedings.
This will be a supercomputer of sheer processor-induced heft, and some of the stats are jaw-dropping. The first construction phase will link 100 Huawei Kunpeng servers together, with 12,800 cores spread between them. The second phase, according to reports, will involve the addition of an extra 47,000 individual CPUs spread across 92 compute cabinets.
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