Created in Europe, the third most powerful computer in the world, these artifacts are also called “supercomputers” because of their large storage capacity and speed.

Currently the most powerful computer in the world is the American Excal Frontier, followed by the Japanese pre-Excal Fugaku, which puts this new European invention called “Lumi” in third place.

In addition, it is expected that by the end of this year this new supercomputer will be able to increase its performance to 550 petaflops, moving to second position. Petaflops is a unit of measurement that determines the computing power of a CPU.

This powerful computer was created by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) at the Kajan Science IT Center in Finland. Other countries participating in the project include Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Norway, Poland, Sweden and Switzerland, which will invest around $ 200 million through the EU and the European Regional Development Fund. Kainuu Regional Council (Finland) was also part of this project.

The capacity of this giant device is equivalent to 1.5 million modern laptops that run simultaneously and have a storage capacity of 17 petabytes.

One petabyte is 1024 times terabyte and that is 1000 times gigabyte, so Lumi’s storage capacity is incalculable, which exceeds and far exceeds billions of gigabytes, a unit used to measure the storage capacity of a conventional computer.

What will this supercomputer be used for?

The supercomputers that exist in the world today are used to perform high-speed mathematical calculations designed for research in various fields of science.

The invention of these huge, powerful computers has led to technology and innovation in artificial intelligence evolving faster than it did decades ago, as the high speed of these devices allows research and studies in this field to be completed in less time.

In Lumi’s specific case, he will be at the service of science on the Old Continent to achieve rapid advances in climate change, medicine, computing, and already mentioned, artificial intelligence and technology.

Equally 20% of the capacity of this giant device will be used to support and position small and medium-sized companies in EU member states.

These computers, which reach across rooms, are also used in the research and development of quantum computing, a branch of computing that seeks to develop computer systems with much greater operating and storage capabilities than traditional ones.

It should be clarified that quantum computing will not replace traditional computing at this time as it is still in the research phase but will complement it, as is the case with Lumi, which was created to support research from traditional computational processes into quantum computing.

On the other hand, it is equipped with a cooling system that provides heating to the surrounding buildings.

The keys to understanding what supercomputers are

The two terms mentioned above are important for understanding what these supercomputers are and how they differ from the standard ones.

Based on the above, in this area of ​​computing are the Exals computers and the Petaflops concept, two elements related to the power and speed of supercomputers, i.e. when these terms are named, we are talking about the processing power of these computers. Great cars.

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