Finland offers South Africa access to Lumi supercomputer

Finland has offered South African researchers access to the Lumi supercomputer as the two countries discuss a formal AI partnership. No agreement exists yet; CSC will host visiting experts, train students and help with joint bids for EuroHPC and Horizon Europe funding.

• Lumi sustains 379.7 petaflops on Linpack against a 531.5 petaflop peak, drawing 7.1MW
• Its GPU partition has 2,978 nodes and 11,912 AMD Instinct MI250X accelerators
• South Africa expects a 4 petaflop replacement for Lengau by March
• The upcoming Lumi AI Factory will cost more than €600-million