According to the TOP500 list, LineShine has debuted at number one, the world's fastest supercomputer, marking the start of a new global exascale era. Exascale represents one exaflop of computing power — ten to the eighteenth floating-point operations per second — which has become the defining frontier in high-performance computing research worldwide.

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