🇿🇦 English, 29 October 2026, supercomputer
Finland Offers South Africa Access to Lumi Supercomputer for AI Research
South African researchers can now access Lumi, one of Europe's fastest supercomputers, through a partnership with Finland.
Finland has offered to help South African researchers gain access to Lumi, a supercomputer that can perform 379.7 petaflops, through a partnership with the Finnish state-owned company CSC. The offer aims to close the computing gap between South Africa and Europe. Lumi is jointly funded by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and a consortium of 11 European countries, led by Finland.
The supercomputer is located in a former paper mill in eastern Finland and has a GPU partition with 11,912 GPUs, as well as a separate partition with 262,000 AMD Epyc processor cores. It has about 120PB of storage and is powered by 100% renewable energy.
The partnership will allow South African researchers to access Lumi for AI research and training, and will also provide opportunities for joint bids for EU funding through the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and Horizon Europe.