China unveils GPU-free LineShine supercomputer

The National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen deployed LineShine, a supercomputer with 2.45 million domestic CPU cores and no GPUs. It delivers 1.54 exaFLOPS using 40,960 Armv9-based LX2 processors across 20,480 nodes connected via the Lingqu interconnect at 1.6 Tb/s per node.