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1.6.2023

Accelerating machine learning: Tim’s journey with supercomputer LUMI

Advancing machine learning algorithms with supercomputing The Processing Speech and Images (PSI) Group at…

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23.5.2023

Open call for help with porting software to LUMI-G and AMD GPUs

Apply for help to port your software to LUMI-G with AMD GPUs! You can apply…

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22.5.2023

LUMI ranked high on the new top lists

EuroHPC Joint Undertaking’s LUMI supercomputer reached the third spot on the new Top500…

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17.5.2023

Researchers discovered information from under the Sun’s surface about the emergence of solar storms using the LUMI supercomputer

In a worst case scenario, a solar storm’s effects on Earth may cause large-scale…

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16.5.2023

LUMI user coffee breaks

The LUMI User Support team is organizing a virtual coffee break on 24 May…

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15.5.2023

Real-time bird monitoring for the benefit of science

Bird populations are known to be showing rapid responses to environmental change. For example,…

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12.5.2023

The third Finnish LUMI Extreme Scale Access call for projects

The third call for proposals for Finnish LUMI Extreme Scale Access projects is open. The…

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12.5.2023

LUMI part of AI2 OLMo, an open language model made by scientists, for scientists

The Allen Institute for AI announced the creation of an open, state-of-the-art generative language…

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3.5.2023

EuroHPC JU’s Regular Access call open for European researchers

The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking’s (EuroHPC JU) Regular Access call to access…

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26.4.2023

LUMI will play a central role in the BioDT project

The LUMI supercomputer will be providing computational and data storage services for the biodiversity digital…

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19.4.2023

EuroHPC JU’s Extreme Scale Access call open for European researchers

The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has launched its Extreme Scale…

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12.4.2023

Research group created the largest Finnish language model ever with the LUMI supercomputer

Currently, one of the hottest topics in the field of technology is text-generating AI. I…

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17.3.2023

Call for Grand Challenge projects in LUMI for Finnish researchers now open

The call for Grand Challenge Projects to be run in LUMI is now open.

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9.3.2023

LUMI data center receives the Green Data Centre of the Year award

The LUMI data center has been recognized in the 2023 Data Centre World Awards…

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6.3.2023

Call for resources open for Belgian researchers

LUMI’s Belgian national track to get access to LUMI is now open! The next…

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1.3.2023

Experiences of Czech scientists pilot testing the GPU partition of LUMI

The world’s third most powerful supercomputer and Europe’s number one is fully operational. The…

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17.2.2023

Workshop collaboration with TREX CoE

The workshop ”Targeting chemical accuracy with quantum Monte Carlo on LUMI” was jointly…

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15.2.2023

Award for LUMI at the HPCwire Superlative Awards 2023

LUMI was awarded at the HPCwire Superlative Awards 2023 in the category for Favourite…

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8.2.2023

Call for resources open for Czech researchers

If you are a researcher affiliated with academic or research institute in Czechia, you…

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1.2.2023

LUMI is officially here!

The second pilot phase of LUMI, using the system’s GPU capacity, is complete, system’s…

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25.1.2023

Call for resources open for Norwegian researchers

Sigma2 has announced a new call for national HPC resources, including the Norwegian…

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19.1.2023

Continuous Benchmark & Development Access Call open

Researchers from academia, research institutes, public authorities, and industry established or located in an…

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17.1.2023

Successful pilot phase for Norwegian LUMI projects

Norwegian researchers have just completed the GPU pilot phase of the LUMI supercomputer,…

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11.1.2023

HyperQueue facilitates better utilization of LUMI’s computational resources

Development is moving forward inevitably, and supercomputers that ruled the Top500 list ten years…

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10.1.2023

Call for resources open for Danish researchers

DeiC has announced a new call for national HPC resources, including the Danish part…

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9.1.2023

More Finnish LUMI projects chosen: advancing speech model for Finnish, advancing cosmic string studies

The second batch of Finnish research projects to utilize LUMI, Europe’s fastest supercomputer, have…

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3.1.2023

Global advantage through high-performance quantum computing

Quantum computers have the potential to provide a game-changing boost for science. For maximum…

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19.12.2022

Extended beta testing starts on LUMI-G

An extended beta testing period starts on the GPU partition (LUMI-G) today, 19 December 2022.

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30.11.2022

Now language models will be trained in European languages on one of the world’s largest text collections

Translation services such as Google Translate and Apple’s virtual assistant Siri are technologies many…

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25.11.2022

A successful SC22 week for LUMI

The first full-scale Supercomputing conference after the Covid-19 pandemic took place in Dallas, Texas,…

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16.11.2022

LUMI’s second pilot phase in full swing

The second pilot phase projects of LUMI, running on the system’s GPU partition, are…

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15.11.2022

LUMI Receives Honors in 2022 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards

20th Annual HPCwire Awards Presented to Leaders in the Global HPC Community LUMI has…

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14.11.2022

LUMI again among the fastest and greenest supercomputers in the world

EuroHPC Joint Undertaking’s LUMI supercomputer reached the third spot on the new Top500 list…

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7.11.2022

Call for resources open for Czech researchers

If you are a researcher affiliated with academic or research institute in Czechia, you can…

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3.11.2022

Cross-border collaboration on high-performance computing

Year 2022 marks the 10-year anniversary for NeIC. To celebrate this milestone, NeIC…

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1.11.2022

Finland opens quantum computer for research purposes – the fusion of quantum computing and supercomputing enables completely new science

VTT’s quantum computer HELMI (“Pearl”) has been connected with the pan-European supercomputer LUMI (“Snow”), hosted…

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17.10.2022

LUMI selected as a platform for Destination Earth’s Climate Change Adaptation Digital Twin

CSC – IT Center for Science will lead an international partnership to deliver the…

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4.10.2022

Czechia will host the European LUMI-Q quantum computer

The European Joint Undertaking EuroHPC has selected sites to host new European quantum computers.

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28.9.2022

Call for resources open for European researchers

The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) launched a call to access its…

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28.9.2022

Call for resources open for Belgian researchers

LUMI’s Belgian national track to get access to LUMI is now open. The next cut-off…

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26.9.2022

Call for resources open for Finnish researchers

The second Finnish call for proposals for LUMI Extreme Scale Access projects is open. The…

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15.9.2022

Call for resources open for Swedish researchers

Calls for LUMI Sweden allocations are issued annually by SNIC. The LUMI Sweden Fall…

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19.8.2022

Towards safer navigation and fully automated vessels with AI technologies

Groke Technologies is a Finnish company that focuses on developing intelligent methods for autonomous…

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9.8.2022

Call for resources open for Polish researchers

The competition for access to LUMI resources for Polish researchers is open until 5 September…

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19.7.2022

First Finnish LUMI projects chosen: advancing cancer research, developing digital twins of the Earth, and more

The first Finnish research projects to utilize LUMI have been chosen. The projects will research,…

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23.6.2022

LUMI User Support Team coffee break

The LUMI User Support Team is organizing a coffee break on Wednesday 29 June at…

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22.6.2022

Report from the LUMI Inauguration

This article was originally published on the SDU eScience Center’s website. On the 13th…

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13.6.2022

LUMI, Europe’s most powerful supercomputer, is solving global challenges and promoting a green transformation

LUMI is the first pre-exascale supercomputer of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and is now…

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10.6.2022

LUMI Inauguration on 13 June

LUMI Inauguration on 13 June 2022 EuroHPC Joint Undertaking’s first pre-exascale supercomputer, LUMI, was inaugurated…

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10.6.2022

Experience LUMI virtually

Welcome to experience LUMI virtually! In this virtual visit, you can walk around the…

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31.5.2022

LUMI one of the greenest supercomputers in the world

LUMI supercomputer reached the third spot on the new Green500 list which ranks supercomputers…

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30.5.2022

LUMI ranked third on Top500 list of world’s fastest supercomputers – the fastest supercomputer in Europe

EuroHPC Joint Undertaking’s LUMI supercomputer reached the third spot on the latest Top500…

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23.5.2022

Language technology is essential for the survival of small languages – researchers using supercomputers to develop Finnish language models

Assistant Professors Sampo Pyysalo and Filip Ginter from the University of Turku’s Department of Information…

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20.5.2022

Award for LUMI at the Electrical Review and Data Centre Review Excellence Awards 2022

CSC’s LUMI EuroHPC data center project won the Innovative…

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16.5.2022

How did LUMI end up in Finland?

LUMI supercomputer’s second installation phase is currently ongoing at CSC’s data center in Kajaani,…

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14.4.2022

At the racing track of quantum computers

In a sense, quantum computers are already much more powerful than traditional supercomputers. In…

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7.4.2022

LUMI GPU early access platform available

As of today, we are making the LUMI GPU early access platform (EAP) available to…

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5.4.2022

Call for resources open for Belgian researchers

The first call for the Belgian allocation of the LUMI compute time is open till…

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1.4.2022

Solving intricate research challenges with LUMI

The goal of the EU Commission and Member States’ EuroHPC Joint Undertaking is to…

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29.3.2022

LUMI pilots: modelling weather and space environment

When fully operational, the LUMI supercomputer with a computing power of 552 petaflops will be…

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28.3.2022

EuroHPC Summit Week 2022 video recap

For many, the EuroHPC Summit Week 2022 in Paris was the first face-to-face conference after…

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16.3.2022

Call for resources open for Czech researchers

If you are a researcher affiliated with academic or research institute in Czech Republic, you…

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14.3.2022

LUMI pilots: High-fidelity turbulence

Researchers Philipp Schlatter, Fermin Mallor, Daniele Massaro, Adam Peplinski, Timofey Mukha and Ronith Stanly from…

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8.3.2022

LUMI pilots: Physics of galaxy collisions

Dr. Oscar Agertz from the Lund Observatory, Sweden, was one of LUMI’s pilot users in…

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2.3.2022

Call for resources open for Danish researchers

If you are a researcher or PhD student at a Danish university, you can now…

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28.2.2022

Second pilot phase projects selected

The projects for the second pilot phase of LUMI have been selected and the pilot…

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15.2.2022

Access to LUMI-C open via continuous calls

Access to LUMI-C is now open, and EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (JU) offers continuous calls to…

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15.2.2022

LUMI-C resources for Danish researchers

Danish researchers can now apply for CPU resources on LUMI-C through DeiC. Six (6) projects…

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14.2.2022

Open call for help with porting software to LUMI-G and AMD GPUs

Apply for help to port your software to LUMI-G with AMD GPUs! You can apply…

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11.2.2022

Successful LUMI access for the climate community in EOSC-Nordic

This article was originally published on the EOSC-Nordic website EOSC-Nordic does calculations on the…

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9.2.2022

Continuous LUMI-C calls open for Finnish researchers

Academic users affiliated with a Finnish university, higher education or research institute may apply for…

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7.2.2022

EasyBuild – LUMI’s primary software installation tool introduced

LUMI was part of the 7th EasyBuild User Meeting, arranged online on 24-28 January…

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28.1.2022

LUMI’s first pilot phase successfully concluded

LUMI’s first pilot phase was concluded by the end of 2021. 30 projects from…

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21.1.2022

Explore port paths to LUMI

EuroCC National Competence Center Sweden (ENCCS) has created a not-your-average code porting guide to…

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14.12.2021

PRACE Autumn School familiarised international students and postdoctoral researchers with modern GPU-accelerated supercomputers

Autumn School participants on their visit to the LUMI data center. Image: Fredrik Robertsén,…

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9.12.2021

LUMI receives honors in global DCD Awards 2021

LUMI has received honors in the global DCD Awards presented in London on 8…

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3.12.2021

Materials from the SYCL workshop

EuroCC National Competence Center Sweden (ENCCS) held its first workshop on heterogeneous programming with…

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25.11.2021

Offloading code with compiler directives

In our last blog we discussed how to convert CUDA applications to HIP.

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22.11.2021

LUMI’s full system architecture revealed

We are excited to reveal the full specs of LUMI now after AMD…

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18.11.2021

LUMI-C ranked on several benchmark lists

The first installation phase of EuroHPC Joint Undertaking’s LUMI supercomputer, the CPU partition called LUMI-C,…

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16.11.2021

LUMI receives honors in 2021 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards

19th Annual HPCwire Awards Given to Leaders in the Global HPC Community…

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15.11.2021

LUMI at SC21!

The SC21 conference is here, and LUMI is excited to be part of the conference!…

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15.11.2021

Destination Earth and digital twins – a European opportunity for HPC

Heatwaves, deadly floods, and wildfires are some examples of extreme weather climate change is affecting.

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11.11.2021

Access to LUMI-C is now open via EuroHPC

The first call for proposals for the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) regular access mode…

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29.10.2021

Swedish HPC Business Day

In the beginning of this month, on the 5th of October, EuroCC National Competence Center…

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21.10.2021

Danish project will explore the boundaries of quantum chemistry with LUMI

This article was originally published on DeiC website One of the very first projects…

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4.10.2021

From future wheat to speech recognition, HPC continues to enable innovations across a wide range of sectors

Facilitating and enhancing access of industrial actors to large-scale, high-performance computational (HPC) resources is one…

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29.9.2021

Finnish LUMI Extreme Scale Access call open

The first Finnish call for proposals for LUMI Extreme Scale Access projects has been extended…

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28.9.2021

LUMI User Support Team offers comprehensive support

The LUMI User Support Team (LUST) has launched web pages to provide comprehensive support…

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15.9.2021

LUMI nominated in HPCwire’s Readers’ Choice Awards – vote now!

The annual HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards are here again. These awards recognize the most…

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3.9.2021

The first phase of LUMI has been installed

Despite the challenging times in the world, the LUMI system deployment has progressed mostly as…

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1.6.2021

LUMI pilot projects selected

The projects for the first pilot phase of LUMI have been selected and the pilots…

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4.5.2021

Deep dive into the building of the LUMI data center

The data center for LUMI at Renforsin Ranta business park in Kajaani, Finland, has undergone…

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15.4.2021

Preparing codes for LUMI: converting CUDA applications to HIP

Image: Adobe Stock In the first blog post “May we introduce:…

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25.3.2021

Getting familiar with LUMI: roadshows and kick-off events throughout Europe

To prepare LUMI’s potential future users for the new supercomputer, the LUMI consortium countries have…

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10.3.2021

HPC continues to be a demonstrated enabler of innovation across a wide range of sectors, can drive significant returns on investments

Did you know that up to 20% of LUMI’s computing resources are available for…

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1.2.2021

LUMI pilot user projects

The pan-European flagship supercomputer LUMI will be opened for customer use in two phases: In…

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25.1.2021

Making of LUMI data center

We are all patiently waiting for LUMI to start operations in 2021! See how…

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16.12.2020

Exploring machine learning frameworks for cloud and supercomputing

In the first blog post of this series we discussed the need for combining…

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10.12.2020

Combined machine learning framework for supercomputing

In our previous blog post we discussed the need for combining modern cloud-based machine…

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17.11.2020

Modern machine learning with supercomputers

What does it take to provide the most powerful AI system possible? For us working…

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3.11.2020

May we introduce: LUMI

This blog post will give a general introduction to the LUMI system, the software system,…

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28.10.2020

High-Performance Quantum Computing — The Convergence Forthcoming

Last week saw a much-anticipated announcement, the specs for the LUMI supercomputer: LUMI will be…

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21.10.2020

One of the world’s mightiest supercomputers, LUMI, will lift European research and competitiveness to a new level and promotes green transition

One of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, LUMI, will start its operations in…

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20.10.2020

LUMI press conference live stream

We welcome you to follow the online LUMI press conference held on Wednesday, October 21st,…

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9.10.2020

LUMI data center will be powered with hydroelectricity supplied by Vattenfall

Vattenfall and CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd have concluded an agreement on the…

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9.7.2020

Scientist: Software development is the foundation of supercomputer success

The supercomputer LUMI can help lift research to a higher level, but it requires a…

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25.6.2020

Iceland joined the LUMI consortium

We are very pleased to announce that the LUMI Strategic Committee has approved Iceland as…

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29.5.2020

The aftermath of the LUMI end user webinar

Over 250 participants joined the LUMI end user webinar on 19 May 2020. The…

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20.5.2020

The waste energy of LUMI supercomputer produces 20 percent of the district heat of the city of Kajaani

The waste heat from the data center to be built for the LUMI supercomputer in…

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6.5.2020

LUMI provides new opportunities for artificial intelligence research

The supercomputer LUMI is scheduled to begin its operation at CSC’s data center in Kajaani,…

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21.4.2020

The website is live!

The website for LUMI is now live. The website will feature…

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19.4.2020

Get ready: LUMI supercomputer will be here next year!

The European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) is pooling European resources to develop…

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4.4.2020

LUMI brings new possibilities for social sciences

When talking about computational sciences, we often think of mathematics, statistics, physics and chemistry. However,…

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26.11.2019

CSC signed the Hosting Agreement with EuroHPC

European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking, EuroHPC JU, and CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd…

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7.6.2019

One of the most competitive supercomputers in the world to be placed in Kajaani, Finland

CSC data center in Kajaani will host a pan-European high-performance supercomputer. The machine will be…

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News and Articles

Accelerating machine learning: Tim’s journey with supercomputer LUMI

Open call for help with porting software to LUMI-G and AMD GPUs

LUMI ranked high on the new top lists

Researchers discovered information from under the Sun’s surface about the emergence of solar storms using the LUMI supercomputer

LUMI user coffee breaks

Real-time bird monitoring for the benefit of science

The third Finnish LUMI Extreme Scale Access call for projects

LUMI part of AI2 OLMo, an open language model made by scientists, for scientists

EuroHPC JU’s Regular Access call open for European researchers

LUMI will play a central role in the BioDT project

EuroHPC JU’s Extreme Scale Access call open for European researchers

Research group created the largest Finnish language model ever with the LUMI supercomputer

Call for Grand Challenge projects in LUMI for Finnish researchers now open

LUMI data center receives the Green Data Centre of the Year award

Call for resources open for Belgian researchers

Experiences of Czech scientists pilot testing the GPU partition of LUMI

Workshop collaboration with TREX CoE

Award for LUMI at the HPCwire Superlative Awards 2023

Call for resources open for Czech researchers

LUMI is officially here!

Call for resources open for Norwegian researchers

Continuous Benchmark & Development Access Call open

Successful pilot phase for Norwegian LUMI projects

HyperQueue facilitates better utilization of LUMI’s computational resources

Call for resources open for Danish researchers

More Finnish LUMI projects chosen: advancing speech model for Finnish, advancing cosmic string studies

Global advantage through high-performance quantum computing

Extended beta testing starts on LUMI-G

Now language models will be trained in European languages ​​on one of the world’s largest text collections

A successful SC22 week for LUMI

LUMI’s second pilot phase in full swing

LUMI Receives Honors in 2022 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards

LUMI again among the fastest and greenest supercomputers in the world

Call for resources open for Czech researchers

Cross-border collaboration on high-performance computing

Finland opens quantum computer for research purposes – the fusion of quantum computing and supercomputing enables completely new science

LUMI selected as a platform for Destination Earth’s Climate Change Adaptation Digital Twin

Czechia will host the European LUMI-Q quantum computer

Call for resources open for European researchers

Call for resources open for Belgian researchers

Call for resources open for Finnish researchers

Call for resources open for Swedish researchers

Towards safer navigation and fully automated vessels with AI technologies

Call for resources open for Polish researchers

First Finnish LUMI projects chosen: advancing cancer research, developing digital twins of the Earth, and more

LUMI User Support Team coffee break

Report from the LUMI Inauguration

LUMI, Europe’s most powerful supercomputer, is solving global challenges and promoting a green transformation

LUMI Inauguration on 13 June

Experience LUMI virtually

LUMI one of the greenest supercomputers in the world

LUMI ranked third on Top500 list of world’s fastest supercomputers – the fastest supercomputer in Europe

Language technology is essential for the survival of small languages – researchers using supercomputers to develop Finnish language models

Award for LUMI at the Electrical Review and Data Centre Review Excellence Awards 2022

How did LUMI end up in Finland?

At the racing track of quantum computers

LUMI GPU early access platform available

Call for resources open for Belgian researchers

Solving intricate research challenges with LUMI

LUMI pilots: modelling weather and space environment

EuroHPC Summit Week 2022 video recap

Call for resources open for Czech researchers

LUMI pilots: High-fidelity turbulence

LUMI pilots: Physics of galaxy collisions

Call for resources open for Danish researchers

Second pilot phase projects selected

Access to LUMI-C open via continuous calls

LUMI-C resources for Danish researchers

Open call for help with porting software to LUMI-G and AMD GPUs

Successful LUMI access for the climate community in EOSC-Nordic

Continuous LUMI-C calls open for Finnish researchers

EasyBuild – LUMI’s primary software installation tool introduced

LUMI’s first pilot phase successfully concluded

Explore port paths to LUMI

PRACE Autumn School familiarised international students and postdoctoral researchers with modern GPU-accelerated supercomputers

LUMI receives honors in global DCD Awards 2021

Materials from the SYCL workshop

Offloading code with compiler directives

LUMI’s full system architecture revealed

Now language models will be trained in European languages on one of the world’s largest text collections