By Cecilie Maagaard Winther, 21/05/21
Before long LUMI in Finland will be online and open for the first pilot projects. To prepare both the scientists, support personnel, administration in different countries and the staff at LUMI, the supercomputer will commence with pilot projects, where everyone can learn to work the giant HPC before LUMI is expected to open for further calls later in 2021.
The EuroHPC initiative is a joint effort by the European Commission and 31 countries to establish a world-class ecosystem in supercomputing to Europe (read more here). One of its first concrete efforts is to install three flagship supercomputers, each of which being among the top 10 systems in the world.
The 10-country LUMI consortium, consisting of Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Poland, Sweden and Switzerland, will collaboratively host one of these systems in Kajaani, Finland.
By Nicolai Devantier, 20/10/20
The procurement process of LUMI (Large Unified Modern Infrastructure) has now been completed and the system vendor has been selected so that the supercomputer can become operational for next year.
LUMI is a unique European supercomputer initiative that includes ten countries, including Denmark, and EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), which together invest in a very large research computer with a top performance of 552 petaflop / s. Danish Universities are part of LUMI with DeiC as administrator.
The combination of supercomputers and technologies like for instance artificial intelligens is an essential cocktail, that will help to drive science and research activities and thereby strengthen Europe's competitiveness in the future. The European High Perfomance Computing initiative plays a key role in this.
