New Delhi, June 27 -- the United States built the fastest machines in the world, and China had stopped entering the contest. LineShine, announced at the ISC 2026 conference in Hamburg this week, closed that chapter.

The machine, installed at China's National Supercomputing Centre in Shenzhen, posted 2.198 exaflops on the High Performance Linpack benchmark, the first system in the TOP500 list's 33-year history to sustain more than two exaflops of computing performance. El Capitan at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, the previous leader, runs at 1.742 exaflops. The margin between them is twenty percent. China has not held the top position since 2017.

What distinguishes LineShine from every other machine in the rankings...