Supercomputer

• EuroHPC and a consortium of six countries have ordered the LUMI-AI supercomputer from French state-owned company Bull for €388 million. • The system will be built in Finland using AMD chips combined with European-made cooling and interconnect technologies. • Funding is split evenly between EuroHPC and a consortium including Finland, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Norway, and Poland to ensure shared access for regional researchers and firms.

• Bull has been selected to build LUMI-AI, a high-performance AI supercomputer in Kajaani, Finland, with a total funding of €387.8 million. • The system will be developed for the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and the LUMI AI Factory consortium, featuring AMD MI430X GPUs and advanced warm water cooling. • This project expands Finland's computational capabilities, providing critical infrastructure for large-scale AI research and industrial applications.

• Bull has been selected to deliver the LUMI-AI supercomputer in Finland, a project valued at €387.8 million. • The system is designed to accelerate AI training and inference while supporting large-scale scientific simulations for research and industry. • Funding is split equally between EuroHPC JU and the LUMI AI Factory consortium, which comprises Finland, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Norway, and Poland.

China’s LineShine debuts at number one in Top500 – a list sometimes viewed as a national measure of global tech prowessA supercomputer in China now outranks its US counterparts as the world’s most powerful. It is the first time since 2017 that a Chinese computer has topped a list sometimes viewed as a measure of a nation’s technological prowess.The LineShine computer in Shenzhen displaced top-ranked US computer El Capitan in the Top500 rankings released on Tuesday. It was LineShine’s debut on the list. Continue reading...

• NVIDIA has deployed 35 new supercomputers across 23 European countries, providing a combined total of 800 exaflops of AI compute power. • Key installations include Spain’s EuroHPC AI Factory, Germany’s HammerHAI, and Sweden’s Mimer, with several systems already in active production. • This massive infrastructure rollout aims to accelerate scientific research and establish technological sovereignty for Europe in the global AI race.

• The UK government announced a £1.1 billion ($1.47 billion) strategic plan on June 8 to expand domestic AI computing capacity. • The initiative focuses on the construction of a new national supercomputer and provides critical funding to support homegrown semiconductor firms. • This investment aims to reduce reliance on foreign technology and strengthen Britain's competitive position in the global AI hardware race.

• NERSC, at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, launched an open call for projects using the Perlmutter supercomputer to advance AI in scientific domains like climate, physics, and biology through January 19, 2027. • Proposals require deep learning expertise, scientific domain knowledge, and proof-of-concept; evaluated on innovation, DOE relevance, feasibility, and scale readiness, with submissions rolling until April 30, 2026, for priority. • NERSC supports 11,000 scientists annually, producing 2,000 peer-reviewed papers and aiding seven Nobel winners.