The European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) announced today local time that it has selected French supercomputing company Bull to build and deliver the LUMI-AI artificial intelligence supercomputer.
LUMI-AI will serve as the computing backbone of the LUMI AI Factory and will be deployed at the CSC data center in Kajaani, Finland. It will support industrial AI innovation, academic research, AI training & inference, and large-scale scientific simulations.
It will use AMD Instinct MI430X GPU accelerators and sixth-generation EPYC processors with 256 cores, delivering 2x the HPC performance and 10x the AI performance compared with the existing LUMI system. Deployment and user access are expected in H2 2027.
The project has a total value of 387.8 million euros for procurement, delivery, installation, and maintenance (note: approximately 3.027 billion yuan at current exchange rates), with EuroHPC JU and the LUMI AI Factory consortium each covering 50%.