Europe signs €387.8M LUMI-AI contract
EuroHPC JU signed a €387.8 million contract with French state-owned Bull to build LUMI-AI at CSC's data centre in Kajaani, Finland. EuroHPC and a six-country consortium will fund it equally.
Deployment is planned for the second half of 2027.
Consequence: if delivered as planned, researchers, startups, SMEs and industry could use shared capacity for AI training, inference and scientific simulation instead of buying a similar private cluster. Multi-tenant and API access is planned.
No new compute is available now. LUMI-AI is expected to offer ten times LUMI's current AI capacity and nearly twice its conventional HPC capacity, but these are targets, not measured results. Its key compute and storage components will still come from AMD and IBM.
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