The first Finnish LUMI Extreme Scale Access 2025 call for projects

The first call for proposals for Finnish LUMI Extreme Scale Access projects in 2025 is open. The call will close on February 28, 2025.

This call for proposals is aimed for high-impact, high-gain innovative research, open to all fields of science that benefit from extremely large allocations in terms of compute time (GPU or CPU) and data storage resources. The call for the Finland’s LUMI Extreme Scale Access projects is organized by CSC – IT Center for Science, and it is open for researchers in Finnish higher education, research institutions and private enterprises. The results and generated IP should be open, i.e., lead to journal articles, theses, and/or open datasets.

The duration of the granted projects is 12 months. You can find more information on different LUMI access modes on the LUMI website. Other LUMI access modes can be applied at MyCSC.

In the proposal, applicants need to:

• Justify that the research requires the use of extremely large allocations to reach the objectives.
• Demonstrate the technical readiness of the method, used software and tools on LUMI-G or LUMI-C by providing benchmarks on LUMI. Performance results from another system with the same node architecture (e.g. Frontier) are accepted, but results from systems with another GPU architecture are not sufficient. The group can get a Benchmark Access project for collecting the demonstration. See https://research.csc.fi/lumi-access.
• Provide a project plan, with an adequate schedule of the expected resource consumption during the lifetime of the project.

The proposals will go through technical and scientific evaluations. Proposals will be scientifically assessed by an international panel of research team leaders from a variety of disciplines.

The overall selection criteria are:
• technical readiness
• scientific excellence of the research
• international and national collaboration with academia and/or industry is of added value.

The proposal should specify the needed GPU hours, CPU core-hours, and storage (TiB) hours. The projects can receive up to 3 million GPU-hours and/or up to 50 million CPU-core hours. For smaller projects (under 0.5 million GPU hours or 10 million CPU hours) the continuous Regular Access mechanism is recommended for its more light-weight application process.
This call will in total allocate 10.4 million GPU hours, 101.7 million CPU-core-hours and 120 million storage hours. The projects are allocated in the ranking order of their total evaluation score. CSC reserves the right of granting projects with different amounts than those requested.

The projects can start in May 2025. The selected projects can be implemented as one or more computing projects, according to the wishes of the applying consortium. Note that the granted resources are an upper limit for the use of the system, but it is not guaranteed that the project will be able to use all their allocated capacity before their end. The projects should do their resource estimations carefully, also accounting for the queuing times in the system.

The call is open until February 28, 2025, 23:59 EET. Apply via this form. You can save and edit your proposal until you decide to send it.

If you have questions, please contact servicedesk@csc.fi

See also the Get Started section for further information about how to apply for LUMI’s resources.