LUMI Inaugurated As Europe's Most Powerful Supercomputer - Powered By AMD CPUs/GPUs

[phoronix]

Phoronix: LUMI Inaugurated As Europe's Most Powerful Supercomputer - Powered By AMD CPUs/GPUs

While not record-shattering like the 1.1 Exaflops Frontier supercomputer at ORNL that took the Top500 spot this year from Fugaku, LUMI was inaugurated today with the claim of Europe's most powerful supercomputer...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LUMI-Supercomputer-Inaugurated

[eyesore]

While initially the combination of the name LUMI and "will be used for matters like fighting climate change" made me smile a bit (I was expecting an unintended cross-language pun), progressing through the article and reading where it's located explained everything.

[Danny3]

I really hope that this will indeed be used for climate and medical research purposes only and not for some stupid weapons research.

[Mahboi]

I really hope that this will indeed be used for climate and medical research purposes only and not for some stupid weapons research.

Any medicine can be poison and any medical research can also be weapons research. It's really about the people using it rather than the nature of the research...

[CommunityMember]

Most powerful *acknowledged* supercomputer: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/techn...ret/ar-AAY8QQn

[stormcrow]

Any medicine can be poison and any medical research can also be weapons research. It's really about the people using it rather than the nature of the research...

Many, if not most, medicines are toxins that have been discovered to have medicinal properties. A couple of notables are digitoxin and quinine.

[skeevy420]

I really hope that this will indeed be used for climate and medical research purposes only and not for some stupid weapons research.

They're looking for the most adequate places to bomb the jet stream to affect rain patterns.

[brucethemoose]

Wait, what happened to the ARM-based exascale1?

I only see references to it in SiPearl press releases now... but shouldnt it be up soon if the design leaked in 2020?

[jacob]

I really hope that this will indeed be used for climate and medical research purposes only and not for some stupid weapons research.

With Putin being what he is, I hope it will be used to give Europe an absolute supremacy in weapons technology over USSR - cough - cough - Russia.

[tchiwam]

LUMI -> Snow