AMD Wins Contract for European LUMI Supercomputer: 552 petaflop/s Powered by Epyc, AMD Instinct
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Unwetter bereitet der Feuerwehr über 600 Einsätze – Telefonausfälle in Baerl
Duisburg. Gegen 18.50 Uhr ist es zu einem starken Unwetterereignis mit Gewitter, Starkregen sowie Sturmböen gekommen. Gleichzeitig ist es zu einem Telefonausfall im Bereich Baerl gekommen.
Im Bereich Baerl war zu Beginn des Unwetters der Notruf der Feuerwehr bedingt durch den Ausfall des Telefonnetzes zum Teil nicht erreichbar. In ihrer ersten Pressemeldung berichtete die Feuerwehr gegen 20 Uhr schon von ca. 300 unwetterbedingte Einsatzstellen. „Zurzeit werden die Hilfeersuchen durch die Feuerwehr priorisiert und nacheinander abgearbeitet“, teilte die Leitstelle weiter mit.
Die Folgen des Unwetters werden weiterhin abgearbeitet. Bis 22.00 Uhr wurden der Feuerwehr Duisburg bereits über 600 Einsätze mit Bezug zum Unwetter gemeldet. Weitere Hilfeersuche treffen noch immer über den Notruf ein. Neben einer Vielzahl umgestürzter Bäume im Stadtgebiet ist es zu zahlreichen Überschwemmungen von Straßen und Kellern gekommen. Auf der Ruhr konnten durch die Feuerwehr 3 Personen aus einem gekenterten Boot gerettet und an Land gebracht werden. Personen sind nach bisherigen Erkenntnissen bis zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt nicht zu Schaden gekommen. Überwiegend hat das Unwetter den Norden sowie Westen des Duisburger Stadtgebietes getroffen. Die Abarbeitung der Einsätze wird voraussichtlich noch mindestens bis zum Morgen andauern.
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Der Ausfall des Telefonnetzes im Ortsteil Duisburg Baerl ist inzwischen behoben. Der Notruf der Feuerwehr Duisburg ist jetzt wieder regulär aus allen Ortsteilen in Duisburg erreichbar. Aufgrund der Vielzahl der weiterhin eingehenden Notrufe kommt es weiter zu Verzögerungen bei der Abarbeitung der Einsätze. „Wir bitten um Verständnis, dass durch die Feuerwehr Duisburg eine Priorisierung der Einsätze erforderlich ist. Einsätze bei denen eine große Gefahr für die öffentliche Sicherheit oder Menschenleben bestehen, haben Vorrang vor gemeldeten Unwetterschäden“, hieß es seitens der Pressestelle der Feuerwehr Duisburg in einer Meldung von 20.40 Uhr.
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EuroHPC Joint Undertaking Launches LUMI, Europe’s Top HPC System
June 13, 2022 — LUMI was inaugurated today, with the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking calling it the organization’s first pre-exascale supercomputer and now Europe’s most powerful supercomputer. It was launched in Kajaani, Finland.
“LUMI offers European researchers a world-class tool for understanding complicated phenomena, such as climate change,” the organization said. “LUMI serves as a platform for international research cooperation and for the development of artificial intelligence and quantum technology. Part of the resources of the computer will focus on industrial research and development activities. LUMI’s environmentally friendly solutions distinguish it from supercomputers known for their heavy use of energy. LUMI is a key tool in promoting digital and green transition throughout society.”
LUMI is owned by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, and it is run by a consortium of 10 countries with long traditions and knowledge of scientific computing. Researchers all over Europe can apply for access to LUMI’s resources, which means that all of Europe can benefit from this new research instrument. LUMI has been set up in Kajaani, in one of the world’s greenest data centres, which is hosted by CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd.
–Today marks a major step for Europe’s digital and green transformation. LUMI is now the fastest and most energy-efficient supercomputer in Europe, and one of the most powerful ones in the world. Thanks to its massive computing capacity, LUMI will enable scientific breakthroughs in for instance medicine and climate research at a much faster pace. It could be in the development of vaccines, diagnosis of cancer, or mitigation of the effects of climate change. This is a great example of the enormous potential of artificial intelligence to improve our lives, said Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission.
–The societal challenges for which we use supercomputers exist on a global scale. The extent of these challenges, and the work required to tackle and transform them into innovation opportunities, requires much collaboration across many branches of academia and countless research teams. It therefore can only make sense that one of the biggest and most important research infrastructures should be based on extensive collaboration. In this, EuroHPC’s LUMI consortium collaboration is a pioneering effort to strengthen European competitiveness and digital sovereignty while promoting global research collaboration, said Anders Dam Jensen, Executive Director of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking.
– LUMI is an ecosystem for high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, and data-intensive research, which enables breakthroughs in several branches of academic research. In addition, a fifth of LUMI’s capacity is targeted to companies that are getting the opportunity to use methods of next-generation high-performance computing and to give rise to new skills and innovation, said Managing Director Kimmo Koski, of CSC, which operates LUMI.
LUMI is Europe’s most powerful supercomputer. LUMI was ranked third on the latest Top500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers, which was released at the end of May. LUMI’s massive computing capacity is primarily based on its many graphics processors, or GPU processors. They are especially suitable for use with various methods involving artificial intelligence, especially for deep learning. The LUMI supercomputer gives European researchers access to a world-class tool to help gain understanding of complex phenomena. Quantum computers need supercomputers alongside them to harness their capacity to the right targets as a part of the research process.
–Finland possesses a significant quantum technology knowledge hub – also on European level. The combination of high performance and quantum computers strengthens the attractiveness of the quantum ecosystem in Finland and in Europe. Jointly they create new kind of opportunities for scientific computing as well as for industrial research and innovations, stated Mika Lintilä, Minister of Economic Affairs and Employment in Finland.
Quantum computers therefore do not replace traditional supercomputers. Instead, the technologies are linked inseparably, giving possibility to develop hybrid solutions that utilizes the best parts of classical supercomputing and quantum computing. LUMI has so far been linked successfully with two quantum computers: the Swedish Chalmers/Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology QAL 9000 – and to Finland’s first quantum computer, the Helmi operated by VTT.
– Efficient scientific computation is needed for doing top research in academic fields with a strong focus on data and computing, in medicine and climate research for example. Computer simulations help in studying phenomena such as climate change and the melting of ice caps, solving questions related to renewable energy and fusion energy, developing new vaccines faster than before, and finding more effective treatments and medicines, said Pekka Manninen, the CSC Director responsible for the LUMI supercomputer.
Digitalisation means making all of society more data intensive, which means that effective capacity for the analysis of large masses of data is needed in all fields and sectors of academic research. Digital humanities are a rising trend in high-performance computing in the 21st century. Social scientists and humanists have long used statistics, register data, and electronic language materials; digitalisation has brought new ways of doing research.
– Computational methods have moved forward at a dizzying speed in our field, noded Associate Professor Sampo Pyysalo of the TurkuNLP research group that is developing language models at the University of Turku, Finland.
The overall societal impact of supercomputers is significant. Research, development, and innovation activities conducted with them advance well-being, health, employment, and economic growth in a sustainable manner and for the long term.
–Science changes the world. With increasing computing capacity we get answers to diverse challenges in numerous different fields of research. LUMI opens new opportunities for international research cooperation and strengthens Finland’s profile as a knowledge-intensive country, said Petri Honkonen, Minister of Science and Culture in Finland.
Artificial intelligence systems are based on demanding machine learning utilising masses of data that require effective computational capacity. LUMI is one of the most advanced platforms for artificial intelligence. It links together computational capacity, artificial intelligence methods (especially deep learning), traditional large-scale simulations, and the utilisation of large masses of data to simultaneously solve a single challenge. One example of research that makes use of artificial intelligence is a research group of the University of Tampere, Finland and Stockholm’s Karolinska Institute, Sweden, which is training artificial intelligence for the diagnosis and classification of prostate cancer.
– Compared with earlier studies, it is possible to do similar things, but faster. For example, if we can reduce the computing time from three days to three hours, we will be able to test new ideas at a faster pace. This accelerates the research process. LUMI also allows new kinds of research questions and the combination of different sources of data enables the modelling of increasingly complicated problems, noted postdoctoral researcher Kimmo Kartasalo of Stockholm’s Karolinska Institute.
LUMI is a key tool when modelling the digital twin of the Earth in the Destination Earth project, which is needed in research related to solutions to climate change.
– LUMI is a very attractive platform for many parts of Destination Earth. One of them is the actual supercomputing workload as the advanced Earth system models a very compute-intensive and could greatly benefit from the GPU acceleration that LUMI offers. Another aspect is machine learning, which is the only realistic way to extract information from vast amounts of diverse data for the wide range of applications that DestinE will serve. Also here, LUMI offers unprecedented capabilities, said Dr. Peter Bauer, Director of Destination Earth at of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).
A significant part of the carbon footprint of the ICT sector comes in the building phase of infrastructures. The carbon footprint of LUMI has been significantly reduced by placing the machine on the premises of a former paper mill in Kajaani, Finland, enabling it to utilise the existing municipal engineering. Thanks to the cool climate of the region very little energy is needed to keep the computer cool.
However, even energy-efficient supercomputers consume plenty of electricity, which means that the way that the electricity is generated is of great significance. LUMI gets all of its electricity from 100 percent renewable hydroelectric power. In addition, the waste heat produced by LUMI will be utilised in the district heating network of Kajaani, which means that its overall carbon footprint is negative. The waste heat produced by LUMI will provide 20% of Kajaani’s annual demand for district heat.
As an indication of its energy efficiency, LUMI won an international prize in late 2021 for the best sustainable development innovation in the field of high-performance computing, and it finished 3rd on the Green500 list for supercomputers that was made public in May 2022. Kajaani is an ideal location for data centres, which have an extensive impact on the climate. With the help of efficient telecommunications links, a supercomputer as a shared resource can be used from anywhere, and it is worth setting up in a location where it is most efficient from the point of view of cost, energy consumption, and the environment.
source: EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
AMD Wins Contract for European LUMI Supercomputer: 552 petaflop/s Powered by Epyc, AMD Instinct
Khalil Rouhana Today we mark an important step forward in the realization of the European High-Performance Computing strategy. The pre-exascale supercomputer hosted by the LUMI consortium will be among the top 5 in the world. Together with the other EuroHPC pre-exascale and petascale supercomputers that will be deployed in 2021, the LUMI supercomputer will help Europe's public and private users address many daunting research and innovation problems across different areas from weather and climate change through cybersecurity to drug discovery and personalized medicine. LUMI supercomputer aligns the Digital and Green Deal policies of the European Commission, using 100% renewable carbon neutral energy. Moreover, the heat generated will provide 20 percent of the district heat of the area, being one of the most efficient supercomputers in the world.
Executive Director of EuroHPC Joint Undertaking Once operational in mid-2021, the LUMI supercomputer will be one of the most competitive and green supercomputers in the world! Such a leadership-class system will support European researchers, industry, and public sector, in better understanding and responding to complex challenges and transforming them into innovation opportunities in sectors like health, weather forecasting, or urban and rural planning.
Peter Ungaro We are committed to supporting the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) to seize opportunities in next-generation supercomputing and bolster R&D in science, advance innovation, and unlock economic growth. We are honored to continue collaborating with EuroHPC JU, and through our partnership with AMD, build one of the world's fastest pre-exascale supercomputers for Europe."
Permanent Secretary Anita Lehikoinen from Ministry of Education and Culture The reliability of CSC and Finland made the European Commission and ten partner countries to invest in one pan-European high-performance computing and data management infrastructure in Finland. We have to keep up the excellent collaboration in order to maximize this investment to benefit society on a larger scale.
CSC's Managing Director Kimmo Koski The investment will make CSC data center one of the world's largest players in the field of HPC. The joint procurement process with the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and ten European countries has proceeded on schedule despite the global pandemic, thanks to the vast know-how of the LUMI consortium and the excellent collaboration. LUMI's astonishing computing power combined with a highly modern artificial intelligence platform and data management infrastructure will help European researchers tackle unforeseen research challenges.
Anna-Maria Henell The technology we are using is strongly based on mathematical modelling: analyses, artificial intelligence, simulations, and optimization. Therefore, powerful computing capacity and data management infrastructure are of the utmost importance for us. The LUMI infrastructure will open up entirely new possibilities for us, which we may exploit. Disior is a Finnish company developing software for analysing medical images in 3D.
The LUMI system will be supplied by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), based on an HPE Cray EX supercomputer.
The peak performance of LUMI is an astonishing 552 petaflop/s meaning 552 *1015 floating point operations per second. This figure makes LUMI one of the world's fastest supercomputers. For comparison, the world's fastest computer today (Fugaku in Japan) reaches 513 petaflop/s and the second fastest (Summit in the US) 200 petaflop/s (more information: If LUMI's computing power was compared to normal laptops, it would require 1.5 million laptops together to reach the performance of LUMI. If these laptops were piled up, they would form a tower of over 23 kilometers high!
LUMI will also be one of the most advanced platforms in the world for artificial intelligence (AI). With LUMI, it will be possible to combine AI, especially deep learning, and traditional large scale simulations combined with massive scale data analytics in solving one research problem.
The number crunching capability of LUMI is accelerated by the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) partition. It is based on the future generation AMD Instinct GPU.
LUMI will be complemented by a CPU (Central Processing Unit) partition, featuring 64-core next-generation AMD EPYC CPUs.
LUMI's data analytics partition has 32 aggregated terabytes of memory and 64 visualization GPUs. This partition is used e.g. for visualization, heavy data analysis, meshing, and pre/post-processing.
LUMI's storage system will consist of three components. First, there will be a 7-petabyte partition of ultra-fast flash storage, combined with a more traditional 80-petabyte capacity storage, both based on the Lustre parallel filesystem, as well as a data management service, based on Ceph and being 30 petabytes in volume.
In total, LUMI will have astounding storage of 117 petabytes and an impressive aggregated I/O bandwidth of 2 terabytes per second
LUMI will also have an OpenShift/Kubernetes container cloud platform for running microservices.
All the different compute and storage partitions are connected to the very fast Cray Slingshot interconnect of 200 Gbit/s. The global bandwidth of the LUMI-GPU partition is 160 TB/s. The global Internet traffic would fit therein, in fact, two times!
LUMI takes over 150m2 of space, which is about the size of a tennis court. The weight of the system is nearly 150 000 kilograms (150 metric tons).
AMD has won a contract to empower the LUMI supercomputer, designed for the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) in conjunction with 10 European countries. The contract will see AMD provide both the CPU and GPU innards of the LUMI, set to be populated with next-generation AMD Epyc CPUs and AMD Instinct GPUs. The supercomputer, which is set to enter operation come next year, will deliver an estimated 552 petaflop/s - higher than the world's current fastest supercomputer, Fugaku in Japan, which reaches peak performance of 513 petaflop/s - and is an Arm-powered affair.The contract for LUMI's construction has been won by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), which will be providing an HPE Cray EX supercomputer powered by the aforementioned AMD hardware. LUMI has an investment cost set at 200 million euros, for both hardware, installation, and the foreseeable lifetime of its operation. This design win by AMD marks another big contract for the company, which was all but absent from the supercomputing space until launch, and subsequent iterations, of its Zen architecture and latest generations of Instinct HPC accelerators.LUMI's top-notch computing resources are needed in leading-edge research in a wide range of data- and computing-intensive fields. Examples include climate, pharmaceutical, and artificial intelligence.LUMI will also have a fast-track for urgent computing in time- and mission-critical simulations. This kind of simulation might be, for example, related to a large epidemic or pandemic disease. The current COVID-19 pandemic has largely benefitted from supercomputers: supercomputers have been used for example to simulate studies related to vaccine research and defeat the spread of the virus. With its vast computing resources, LUMI can address different research challenges even faster than before. In addition, it will enable addressing totally new types of scientific challenges combining multidisciplinary research and artificial intelligence.As a carbon-neutral data center, LUMI helps the European ICT sector in becoming greener and more cost-efficient, which is a necessity for reaching EU's ambitious climate targets and paving the way for the green transition. CSC's data center in Kajaani is among the world's most eco-efficient: it uses 100% renewable energy produced with hydropower. LUMI's waste heat will be used in Kajaani's district heating network: 20% of the area's yearly district heating needs will be covered with LUMI's waste heat.
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