Telus’ new Sovereign AI Factory in Rimouski, Quebec has been officially ranked as Canada’s fastest and most powerful supercomputer, according to the latest TOP500 list. The system placed 78th worldwide, making Telus the only Canadian telecom provider on the list.

The TOP500 ranks supercomputers using the High-Performance LINPACK (HPL) benchmark, which measures sustained performance in floating-point operations per second (FLOPS). The official entry for Telus’ Sovereign AI Factory lists its speed as 22.74 teraFLOPS—that’s about 22.7 trillion calculations per second, placing it 78th worldwide.

It’s worth pointing out Telus’ press release correctly uses “22.74 teraFLOPS” for the benchmark score, but it also describes the system as performing “22.74 quadrillion calculations per second” elsew

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