1. The top 500 list is broken, as people who are serious about real world applications give essentially zero shits about Linpack. 2. The dominance of China is

1. The top 500 list is broken, as people who are serious about real world applications give essentially zero shits about Linpack. 2. The dominance of China is achieved through the use of Xeon Phi accelerators, which may be great for Linpack, but have not made much of a splash for applications yet. GPUs are solidly beating Intel's accelerator offering both on adaptation and performance.