LUMI Inauguration day 13 June 2022

The LUMI Inauguration was held on 13 June 2022, recordings and images available!

EuroHPC Joint Undertaking’s first pre-exascale supercomputer, LUMI, was inaugurated on 13 June 2022.

Watch the recordings from the day below!

Images from the day are available in LUMI’s media gallery.

Pre-inauguration seminar stream at 10.00–13.00 EEST (9.00–12.00 CEST)

A pre-inauguration seminar took place from 10.00–13.05 EEST. The seminar discussed the role of HPC as a key technology for the green and digital transformation. Please see the full program below.

Inauguration stream at 15.00–16.40 EEST (14.00–15.40 CEST)

The LUMI inauguration took place from 15.00–16.40 EEST. Petri Honkonen, Finland’s Minister for Science and Culture  inaugurated LUMI with Mika Lintilä, Finland’s Minister for Economic Affairs, Mr. Roberto Viola, Director-General of European Commission’s DG for Communications Networks, Content and Technology, Mr. Anders Dam Jensen, Executive Director of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and and Mr. Kimmo Koski, Managing Director of CSC – IT Center for Science. The ceremony will also include representatives of LUMI consortium countries and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Please see the full program below.

Program:

10:00–13:00 Pre-inauguration seminar

10:00 Opening words
• Mr. Kimmo Koski, Managing Director of CSC – IT Center for Science
• Mr. Roberto Viola, Director-General of European Commission’s DG for Communications Networks, Content and Technology

10:10 Keynote address
• Mr. Petri Honkonen, Finland’s Minister for Science and Culture
10:30 Taking research, innovation and industry to the next level – introduction to the panel discussions
• Mr. Mika Lintilä, Finland’s Minister for Economic Affairs

10.45 Panel discussion on cross-border and cross-sector cooperation for developing digital infrastructure ecosystems for building competence and sustainability
• Ms. Anita Lehikoinen, Permanent Secretary of Finland’s Ministry for Education and Culture
• Ms. Ilona Lundström, Director-General for Innovations and Enterprise Financing of Finland’s Ministry for Economic Affairs and Employment
• Mr. Roberto Viola, Director-General of European Commission’s DG for Communications Networks, Content and Technology
• Mr. Timo Pesonen, Director-General of the European Commission’s DG for Defence Industry and Space

11:25 Coffee break

11:55 Panel discussion on the role of HPC in solving grand societal challenges
• Ms. Miapetra Kumpula-Natri, Member of the European Parliament
• Mr. Herbert Zeisel, Deputy Director-General at Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Chair of the Governing Board of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
• Mr. Renno Veinthal, Deputy Secretary General of Estonia’s Ministry of Education and Research
• Mr. Jan Hrušák, Special Envoy for Research Infrastructures of Czechia’s Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports and former chairperson of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI)

12:35 Comment: Future insights for boosting the dual transition and data economy with LUMI
• Mr. Timo Harakka, Finland’s Minister of Transport and Communications

12:50 Closing words
• Mr. Kimmo Koski, Managing Director of CSC – IT Center for Science
• Mr. Roberto Viola, Director-General of European Commission’s DG for Communications Networks, Content and Technology

15:00–17:00 Inauguration ceremony, LUMI data centre

15:00 Inauguration ceremony

• Ms. Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission (video greeting)
• Mr. Petri Honkonen, Finland’s Minister for Science and Culture
• Mr. Mika Lintilä, Finland’s Minister for Economic Affairs
• Mr. Roberto Viola, Director General of European Commission’s DG for Communications Networks, Content and Technology
• Ms. Anita Lehikoinen, Permanent Secretary of Finland’s Ministry for Education and Culture
• Mr. Samuel Engblom, State Secretary of Sweden’s Ministry of Education and Research (video greeting)
• Mr. Kimmo Koski, Managing Director of CSC – IT Center for Science
• Mr. Anders Dam Jensen, Executive Director of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
• Mr. Jari Tolonen, the Mayor of the City of Kajaani
• Mr. Gilles Thiebaut, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Northern Western Europe, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

More information about LUMI:

LUMI is a unique endeavour thanks to its scale, sustainability and pan-European nature. Like all supercomputers, LUMI is a tool for data-based R&I, enabling scientific breakthroughs and industrial innovations in various fields. What sets LUMI apart from other supercomputers is that it does this more efficiently, with less burden on the environment and for the benefit of all of Europe.

At the time of its inauguration, LUMI will be Europe’s most powerful supercomputer. It will be able to process data faster than any other European machine, thereby accelerating the pace of research to create new knowledge and solutions to global societal challenges, such as pandemics and climate change. Thanks to LUMI’s green features, such as being powered by renewable energy, using free cooling and re-using waste heat for local district heating, these power-intensive tasks can be done in an exceptionally eco-efficient way.

LUMI is owned by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and hosted by a consortium of 10 countries with a long tradition and knowledge in scientific computing. Thanks to this collaborative structure, researchers everywhere in Europe can apply for access to LUMI’s resources, spreading its benefits to the whole continent.

Virtual visit:

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LUMI on social media:

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Image on the Youtube slide: Fade Creative