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LUMI AI Factory

Welcome to LUMI AI Factory!

The LUMI AI Factory is a pioneering service infrastructure and expert support center designed to accelerate AI innovation across Europe. We provide a seamless, open AI solution that combines world-class supercomputing, high-value data, and top-tier AI expertise — empowering startups, SMEs, researchers, and businesses to develop cutting-edge AI models, tools, and applications.

Whether you’re new to high-performance computing (HPC) or an experienced AI developer, our services cater to all skill levels. From expert support and training to powerful computing resources, we are making a significant investment in talent and competence development.

LUMI-AI will be the new AI-focused supercomputer leveraging a large, accelerated partition utilising next-generation GPUs offering flexibility in supporting a wide range of compute workloads, from training to inference and classical simulations.

The LUMI-AI computing environment will also leverage a one-of-a-kind experimental quantum computing platform, LUMI-IQ, designed for QC+AI workloads.

We have chosen key industrial areas as well as RDI domains to focus for their strategic importance and potential for significant impact through AI integration.  These focus areas are:

  • Manufacturing industries
  • Health and life sciences
  • Communication technologies and networks

We will also center our activities on cross-cutting challenges such as ease of use and streamlined access, ensuring that AI technologies are accessible and effective. We will leverage advancements in simulation and AI to drive innovation in digital twins and AI for science across key focus areas, including climate and weather, materials technology, and languages.

We will offer a comprehensive portfolio of services, ranging from basic technical user support to sophisticated and tailored AI consultations.

Computing capacity

  •  Massive GPU, AI inference, multi-tenant environment and fast storage
  • Quantum capacity for AI through the LUMI-IQ experimental platform
  • Fast lane to large capacity

Data access

  • Cloud-like data environment
  • Public and restricted data, dynamic data
  • Datasets-as-a-service dataset hosting
  • Connecting to data spaces and other infrastructures

Data Support

  • Data wrangling, MLops
  • Deep support for AI methods, scalability
  • Sourcing, negotiating and curating high-value datasets

Training

  • Structured training paths for AI and HPC, tailored training for different domains
  • Deep collaboration with AI centers

Co-working spaces and student facilities to nurture talent

  • Main hub on grounds of Aalto University, together with ELLIS Institute
  • Network of satellite hubs in partner countries

Consultation (special focus on companies)

  • Getting started, feasibility analysis
  • Support in applying for large resources
  • Trustworthy AI: regulatory consultation, compliance, sandboxes
  • Ecosystem development

Focus on competence development

  • Support both scientific researchers and industrial innovators in adopting AI methods on a large scale.

LUMI AI Factory is hosted at the CSC – IT Center for Science, and backed up by a consortium including Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Norway, and Poland.