LUMI explained
LUMI (Large Unified Modern Infrastructure) is a petascale supercomputer located at the CSC data center[2] in Kajaani, Finland., the computer is the fastest supercomputer in Europe.
The completed system consists of 362,496 cores, capable of executing more than 375 petaflops, with a theoretical peak performance of more than 550 petaflops, which places it among the top five most powerful computers in the world.[3] The November 2022 TOP500 ranks LUMI at number five, with a measured performance of 309.1 PFLOPS.[4]
Architecture
The system is being supplied by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), providing an HPE Cray EX supercomputer with next generation 64-core AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD Radeon Instinct GPUs.[5] [6] LUMI is a GPU based system, and the majority of its computing power comes from its GPU cores, an architecture which was chosen primarily for its cost/performance advantage.[7] The system is equipped with 1.75 petabytes of RAM,[8] [9] [10] and storage includes a 7-petabyte partition of flash storage, combined with 80-petabytes of traditional storage, both based on the Lustre parallel file system, as well as a 30-petabyte data management service based on Ceph. This gives the system a total of 117 petabytes of storage with an aggregated I/O bandwidth of 2 terabytes per second.[11]
Funding
LUMI is co-funded by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and the LUMI Consortium, which is composed of the following countries: Finland, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Iceland, Norway, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, and Switzerland. The total budget is €144.5 million.[12] [13]
Energy
The computer uses 100% hydroelectric energy, and the heat it generates will be captured and used to heat buildings in the area,[14] [15] making LUMI one of the most environmentally efficient supercomputers in the world.[16] The former UPM paper mill where LUMI is located had only a single 2 minute power outage during its 38 years of operations thanks to the site's reliable connection to the national grid.[17]
Operation
Half of LUMI's capacity belongs to the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, 20% of which is reserved for industry and SME use.[18] The other half is shared among the LUMI Consortium countries, according to each country’s financial contribution.[19]
By June 2021 pilot projects had been selected for the first run of the CPU partition, scheduled for September 2021, with full operations including the GPU partition planned for 2022.[20]
Naming
The word "lumi" means "snow" in Finnish.[21]
See also
- Leonardo, another EuroHPC supercomputer under construction in Bologna, Italy
- EuroHPC (European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking).
Notes and References
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- Web site: CSC: One of the world's mightiest supercomputers LUMI will lift European research and competitiveness to a new level . Science Business Publishing International SRL . October 21, 2020 . ScienceBusiness . February 14, 2021 . July 15, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240715090308/https://sciencebusiness.net/network-updates/csc-one-worlds-mightiest-supercomputers-lumi-will-lift-european-research-and . live .
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- Web site: November 2022 TOP500 . 2022-11-19 . www.top500.org . 2022-11-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221116115309/https://top500.org/lists/top500/2022/11/ . live .
- Web site: Hewlett Packard Enterprise wins $160M+ contract to power one of the world's fastest supercomputers based in Finland to bolster Europe's research in science and unlock economic growth . Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP . October 21, 2020 . Hewlett Packard Enterprise . February 13, 2021 . July 19, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210719084527/https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/press-release/2020/10/hewlett-packard-enterprise-wins-160m-contract-to-power-one-of-the-worlds-fastest-supercomputers-based-in-finland-to-bolster-europes-research-in-science-and-unlock-economic-growth.html . live .
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- Web site: AMD's Next Gen EPYC & Radeon Instinct Powered LUMI Supercomputer Announced For 2021, 550 Petaflops Peak Horsepower . NewAge ADS, LLC . October 22, 2020 . Wccftech.com . February 14, 2021 . July 15, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240715090308/https://wccftech.com/amd-next-gen-epyc-radeon-instinct-powered-lumi-supercomputer-announced-2021/ . live .
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