China announces CPU-only Lingshen supercomputer targeting 2 ExaFLOPS with 47,000 homemade Huawei Kunpeng processors, no GPUs or foreign parts

China announces CPU-only Lingshen supercomputer targeting 2 ExaFLOPS with 47,000 homemade Huawei Kunpeng processors, no GPUs or foreign parts—claims disputed as system not yet built

China announces CPU-only exascale supercomputer with 47,000 homemade processors, record 2 Exaflops of performance without GPUs — Lingshen super said to use Huawei Kunpeng servers and no foreign-made components

China's National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen announced the Lingshen supercomputer project at a conference on April 24, targeting sustained performance above 2 ExaFLOPS using only CPUs and no foreign-made components.The system would pack 47,000 processors into 92 compute cabinets, making it the first exascale machine designed to reach that performance tier without GPU accelerators. Lu Yutong, director of the Shenzhen supercomputing center and the system's chief designer, presented the techn...