AMD and HPE have said that EPYC CPUs and AMD Instinct GPUs will power a “pre-exascale” supercomputer built under the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) initiative.

Delivering up to 550 petaFLOPs, the machine will help researchers across Europe advance R&D.

 The supercomputer  – one of the world’s fastest  – will be located at the Centre for Science in Kajaani, Finland. It will be shared by ten European countries as part of the newly formed LUMI consortium.

 LUMI is expected to target deep learning capabilities to advance the combination of modelling, simulation, and AI workloads to solve complex research. The new system is expected to be available in mid-2021.