AMD’s Next Gen EPYC & Radeon Instinct Powered LUMI Supercomputer Announced For 2021, 550 Petaflops Peak Horsepower
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LUMI supercomputer has been inaugurated – Výzkumné infrastruktury
On 13th June 2022, the inauguration of the LUMI supercomputer took place in Kajaani, Finland. It took 3rd place in the TOP 500 ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers and 1st place in Europe with a measured performance of 151.9 PFlop/s that will be further increased to the target 550 PFlop/s. LUMI is one of the supercomputers with the lowest carbon footprint since it is entirely powered by the hydroelectricity and the heat generated by its operation will provide up to 20% of the heat for the city of Kajaani. LUMI offers European researchers a world-class ICT instrument for understanding complex phenomena, such as the climate change or the application of artificial intelligence, and also serves as a platform for international collaboration in research, technology development and innovation.
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Inauguration of the LUMI supercomputer
The LUMI supercomputer inauguration event took place in the presence of Petri Honkonen, Finland’s Minister for Science and Culture; Miki Lintilä, Finland’s Minister for Economic Affairs; Anders Dam Jensen, Executive Director of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, and almost 150 delegates from Member States of the LUMI consortium and the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking.
“Today marks a major step for Europe’s digital and green transition. 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,” says Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission.
“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,” adds Kimmo Koski, Director of the CSC – IT Centre for Science, a Finnish organization hosting LUMI.
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Engagement of Czechia in the LUMI consortium
The LUMI supercomputer is owned by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, and it is run by a consortium of 10 countries – Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Poland, Sweden and Switzerland. Czechia is involved through the IT4Innovations National Supercomputer Centre, a part of the e-INFRA CZ large research infrastructure. Czech scientists are thereby gaining access to one of the most powerful computing tools in the world.
The recording of the LUMI supercomputer inauguration ceremony and the seminar that preceded can be viewed at the LUMI supercomputer website.
LUMI Inauguration
LUMI, Europe's most powerful supercomputer, is solving global challenges and promoting a green transformation
The LUMI supercomputer is the first pre-exascale supercomputer of the pan-European EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and is now also the most powerful supercomputer in Europe.
Its inauguration ceremony took place on Monday 13th June 2022 in Kajaani, Finland. LUMI offers European researchers a world-class tool for understanding complex phenomena such as climate change and applications of artificial intelligence, while also serving as a platform for international research cooperation. IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center, which is part of VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, is also involved in its construction and operation. Czech scientists thus have access to this unique supercomputer through the services provided by the e-INFRA CZ research infrastructure, of which IT4Innovations is a part.
LUMI is owned by the pan-European EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, and it is run by a consortium of 10 countries with long traditions and knowledge of scientific computing. In addition to researchers from all over Europe, researchers from the Czech Republic can also apply for access to LUMI resources thanks to the involvement of IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center, based in Ostrava. 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,” says 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,” says Anders Dam Jensen, Executive Director of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking.
"It is great that we have succeeded in what we and the other members of the consortium set out to do four years ago, which was to build the most powerful European supercomputer that will compete with the world's best. LUMI is a modern tool that we are also bringing to all users from the scientific communities in the Czech Republic. However, our involvement in the LUMI consortium is not just about access to its computational resources. From the very beginning, we have been actively involved in the implementation of this project as part of its management structure, providing expert support to users within LUST (LUMI user support team), developing software tools such as HyperQueue that enable users to efficiently use the available computational resources of the supercomputer. I am very pleased that we can actively participate in this historic milestone of European supercomputing," adds Vít Vondrák, Managing Director of IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center.
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AMD’s Next Gen EPYC & Radeon Instinct Powered LUMI Supercomputer Announced For 2021, 550 Petaflops Peak Horsepower
AMD's next-generation EPYC CPUs and Radeon Instinct GPUs are all set to power the LUMI (Large Unified Modern Infrastructure) supercomputer that will become fully operational by 2021 & based in Kajaani, Finland.
AMD All Set To Power EuroHPC's LUMI Supercomputer With Its Next-Gen EPYC CPUs & Radeon Instinct GPUs
The LUMI supercomputer was announced by HP (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) and will be using its HPE Cray EX architecture to deliver more than half an Exaflops of performance. The supercomputer will be based in Finland and will be part of EuroHPC's GPU-accelerated supercomputing platform that will be equipped with next-gen AMD EPYC CPUs and Radeon Instinct GPU accelerators. LUMI is planned to become fully operational by late 2021 and will be among the top 5 supercomputers that will also include the AMD powered El Capitan and Frontier supercomputers which feature 1.5 - 2.0 Exaflops of computing horsepower.
“AMD is proud to join with HPE to power the upcoming LUMI supercomputer to advance scientific research in artificial intelligence, weather forecasting, pharmaceutical discovery, and more,” said Forrest Norrod, senior vice president and general manager, data center and embedded systems group, AMD. “Our next-generation AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD Instinct GPUs, coupled with HPE’s unique supercomputing technologies, are fueling new capabilities in high performance computing, and we are excited to strengthen the European research community through our support.” via HPE
Some of the main features of the LUMI supercomputer that have been highlighted include:
Powerful compute with targeted AI capabilities using next-generation AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD Instinct GPUs
Expanded storage to support complex workloads in modeling, simulation, and AI using HPE’s Cray ClusterStor E1000 storage system
HPE Slingshot for purpose-built HPC networking to address demands for higher speed and congestion control for data-intensive workloads
Sophisticated direct liquid cooling capabilities for larger-scale systems to increase overall efficiency in electricity and water usage used to operate the system
In terms of specifications, the LUMI supercomputer will feature AMD's next-generation EPYC CPUs. The exact variant is not known yet but it could be Milan based with Zen 3. The supercomputer will pack around 200,000 AMD EPYC "Next-Gen" Zen 3 CPU cores, a storage system comprised of 30 Petabytes of capacity with 7 Petabytes of additional Flash-Based storage capacity with bandwidths of up to 2 TB/s and 80 Petabytes of the parallel file system.
Since LUMI is primarily a GPU-accelerated supercomputer, it will feature AMD's next-generation CDNA based Radeon Instinct accelerators which would provide up to 550 Petaflops of computing horsepower. The total system will consume around 8.5 MW of power and will receive its power from a Hydropower electric station source which has a total power output of 200 MW making it a carbon-neutral supercomputing platform. Based on these numbers, the system will have a peak efficiency rate of 44.1 Gigaflops per Watt. The AMD powered LUMI supercomputer will cost €144.5 million and cover over 150-meter square space.
Australia's Fastest Supercomputer "Pawsey" To Feature AMD's EPYC & Radeon Instinct Chips, Up To 50 Petaflops Computing Power
In related news, HPE also announced that it will be building Australia's most powerful "Pawsey" supercomputer which would also feature the HPE Cray EC architecture and feature AMD's next-generation EPYC & Radeon Instinct chips. HPE stated that it had won a $48 AUD million contract to build the Supercomputer, featuring 30 times more compute power and 10 times more energy efficiency. The system will have a peak computing capability of 50 Petaflops.
“AMD is excited to help accelerate groundbreaking scientific research with our high-performance processors in the next-generation HPE and Pawsey supercomputer,” said Forrest Norrod, senior vice president and general manager, AMD Data Center and Embedded Systems Group. “Significant new discoveries will be made at the Centre for years to come, enabled by Pawsey’s almost 50 petaflops of supercomputing capacity.” via HPE
Finally, it was announced by AMD that OIST (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University) will be deploying its EPYC 7702 CPUs within a new supercomputer which would deliver 2 Petaflops of computing power dedicated to scientific research. The supercomputer will deliver 2.36 Petaflops of computer horsepower, powered by AMD's 64 core EPYC CPU.
“AMD is proud to be working with leading global institutions to bring scientific research to the forefront through the power of high-performance computing technology,” said Ram Peddibhotla, corporate vice president, EPYC product management, AMD. “With high-performance capabilities, ease of management and scalability, 2ndGen AMD EPYC processors can assist OIST researchers with advancing technological innovations and supporting their research goals in bioinformatics, computational neuroscience, and physics.” via AMD
The supercomputer will feature the EPYC 7702 CPU which packs 64 cores, 128 threads, clock speed of up to 3.35 GHz, a 200W TDP, and a massive 256 MB L3 cache with 128 PCIe Gen 4 lanes. Expect to hear more on these next-generation AMD EPYC CPU and Radeon Instinct GPU powered systems in the coming months.
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