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The LUMI data center has been recognized in the 2023 Data Centre World Awards for the Green Data Centre of the Year. The award was presented at the Data Centre World event in London on 8 March 2023.LUMI is an HPE-Cray EX supercomputer powered by AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD MI250X GPUs. It ranks no. 3 on the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers with 309 petaFLOPS peak performance.
Sustainability was one of the driving design principles for LUMI. The LUMI supercomputer uses 100 percent hydropower, and its waste heat accounts for up to 20 percent of the annual district heating needs of the city of Kajaani, having the potential to reduce 12,400 tons of CO2 annually. The supercomputer is owned by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and hosted by the LUMI consortium, including ten European countries.
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