LUMI pilot projects selected

The projects for the first pilot phase of LUMI have been selected and the pilots will start to run on the CPU partition of LUMI in September 2021.

The first pilot phase aims to test the scalability of the CPU partition and generate workloads on the CPUs, particularly to stress test the storage systems for stability testing. Furthermore, the aim is to provide early access to LUMI to obtain feedback from the pilot users before the launch of LUMI’s regular operations.

The selected projects for the pilot phase were chosen from the LUMI consortium countries and are presenting various disciplines:

• Belgium: Michel Rasquin (Cenaero), Thomas Toulorge (Cenaero) and Koen Hillewaert (University of Liège & Cenaero), Direct Numerical Simulations of a Smoothed Backward Facing Step Featuring Incipient Separation
• Belgium: Giovanni Lapenta (KU Leuven, Department of Mathematics, Center for mathematical Plasma-Astrophysics), LIFTHRASIR: LumI First Tests of the HaRdware Architecture by Simulations of Interplanetary Regions
• Belgium: Philippe Chatelain (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium), MURPHY – a new-generation incompressible flow solver for extreme scale computing
• Belgium: Daan Degrauwe (Royal Meteorological Institute and University of Ghent), Numerical weather predictions at hectometric resolutions
• Czech Republic: Dominik Legut (VSB – Technical University of Ostrava), Understanding the Physics of Phonons utilizing electronic structure and atomistic calculations employing state-of-the-art methods
• Czech Republic: Denys Biriukov (Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, AS CR), Interaction network in extracellular space: an all-atom simulation model of the glycocalyx and cell membrane
• Denmark: Ove Christiansen and Jonas Elm (Aarhus University): High Performance Computing Quantum Chemistry on LUMI
• Denmark: Gert Frølund Pedersen and Ondrej Franek (Aalborg University): Perfect Antennas for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (PARIS)
• Denmark: Himanshu Khandelia (University of Southern Denmark), Multiscale Biomolecular Simulations
• Denmark: Claes Eskilsson (Aalborg University), High-Fidelity Simulations of Marine Renewables
• Estonia: Triin Laisk and Reedik Mägi (Estonian Genome Centre): Genetic Susceptibility Factors of Different Traits
• Estonia: Germo Väli (Dep. of Marine Systems at TalTech), High-Resolution Ocean Model for Main Basins of The Baltic Sea
• Estonia: Kirils Surovovs (University of Latvia), Electrical Engineer
• Estonia: Andris Gulans (University of Latvia), Physical Sciences
• Finland: Minna Palmroth (University of Helsinki), LUmi – Carrington Kinetic simulations (LUCK)
• Finland: Shreyas Kaptan (University of Helsinki), Molecular Basis of Intelligence (MOLiNT)
• Finland: Mark Hindmarsh (University of Helsinki), ADMAS Axion dark matter from axion strings
• Iceland: Hannes Jónsson (University of Iceland), Computational Chemistry
• Iceland: Henning Úlfarsson (University of Reykjavik), Algorithmic Mathematics
• Norway: Mats Carlsson (Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics, University of Oslo), Solar Atmospheric Modelling
• Norway: Mats Bentsen (NORCE research institute), Computing for nationally coordinated NorESM experiments
• Norway: Mahmoud Moqadam (University of Bergen), Mapping peripheral protein-membrane interactions for a better description of the protein-lipid interactome
• Norway: SINTEF, Combustion of hydrogen blends in gas turbines at reheat conditions
• Poland: Gabriel Wlazłowski (Warsaw University of Technology), Supersolidity in ultracold Fermi gas
• Poland: Janusz M. Bujnicki (IIMCB in Warsaw), Drugging the genomic RNA of SARS-CoV-2 with small
  molecules
• Sweden: Oscar Agertz and Florent Renaud (Lund University), The baryon cycle in colliding galaxies
• Sweden: Philipp Schlatter (KTH) and Jonathan Vincent (PDC) and Jing Gong (ENCCS), Turbulence data generation on Boeing hump
• Sweden: Igor Abrikosov, Florian Trybel & Florian Bock (Linköping University), Quantum theory of metastable phases of novel nitrides, oxides and hydrides
• Switzerland: Nicola Marzari (EPFL, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne), High-throughput computing

Operations of LUMI starting in two phases

LUMI will be installed in two phases: in the first phase, during summer 2021, the CPU partition and storage systems will be deployed.

The second installation phase towards the end of the year will bring LUMI to its full grandeur including the GPU partition.

Both installation phases will be concluded with short pilot and acceptance phases. So LUMI will be in full swing in early 2022 but the CPU partition will be available already earlier during autumn 2021. Together with the CPU capacities, LUMI will feature an Early Access Platform for preparing applications for the GPU partition. LUMI welcomes further early adopter projects from all LUMI consortium countries after the first phase of pilots has been completed.