| Developers: | Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), EuroHPC JU (European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking) |
| Date of the premiere of the system: | June 2022 |
| Technology: | Supercomputer |
2022: Supercomputer launch
On June 13, 2022, HPE and EuroHPC officially unveiled the LUMI computing system installed at the Computer Science Center (CSC) data center in Kayaani (Finland), considered the most powerful supercomputer in Europe.
According to the European Commission, LUMI is a joint project of EuroHPC and a consortium of ten European countries, including Finland, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, Iceland and Norway.
LUMI is not designed to serve a large number of societal issues, particularly climate change research, medicine and life sciences. The computer will be more applied in areas related to high-performance computing (HPC), the development of artificial intelligence and quantum technologies, as well as in various areas of their intersection. The computer will be available to individual users during the implementation of the second stage in August 2022, and the full version will become publicly available at the end of September 2022.
LUMI's processing power, which is expected to be 550 petaflops or 550 million calculations per second, will complement existing ones supercomputers EuroHPC such as Discoverer in, Bulgaria MeluXina in, Luxembourg Vega Slovenia in and Karolina in, Czech Republic the EC added.
EuroHPC said LUMI's enormous processing power is primarily based on a variety of GPUs. They are especially suitable for working with various methods of studying artificial intelligence, and in particular for its deep learning.
LUMI is among the largest supercomputers in the world and is powered by renewable hydroelectric power. The waste heat it generates will provide a fifth of the heat for the city of Kayaani.
Margaret Vestager, executive vice president of the European Commission, called the computer "an important step in the digital and green transformation of Europe."
 | Europe's digital autonomy depends on mastering the next generation of supercomputers, she added. Three years ago, the EU bought eight supercomputers; today half of them are already working, the three remaining after LUMI will enter service at the end of the year.[1] |  |
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