With the support of $160m in funding from the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), HPE is building supercomputer LUMI in Kajaani, Finland with a theoretical performance capability of over 550 petaflops, which will make it the fastest in the world.
LUMI, which is due to be available for use from the middle of 2021, is based on HPE Cray EX supercomputers with AMD EPYC next-generation CPUs and AMD Instinct GPUs and will use a sophisticated direct liquid cooling system. It will mostly be used for R&D and innovation development in areas such as health, weather forecasting and AI-enabled products.
The world’s most powerful supercomputer in current use is the Fugaku in Japan with 415 petaflops, which is three times more powerful than the previous leader in the ranking, Summit.