Supercomputing for Business seminar
08.05.2025
Do you want to develop your business faster and more efficiently? Do you think that massive computing capacity with huge GPU resources could help your development work? Have you heard that EuroHPC LUMI, one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers and artificial intelligence platforms, is available for RDI work of Finnish companies? The size of the company does not matter – LUMI also helps startups and SMEs.
When: Thursday 8th May 2025 on 11:00-16:00
Where: Savonia Microkatu Campus (Microkatu 1, 70210 Kuopio)
Register: Supercomputing for Business registration
The seminar is free of charge. Seminar includes lunch and coffee.
Read more: csc.fi
Supercomputing for Business seminar is for companies in the Kuopio region interested in booting their RDI with high-performance computing! In this seminar you will hear enlightening talks by supercomputing specialists and inspiring industrial speakers showcasing the benefits of supercomputing. Among other things demanding simulations and large-scale AI, like GenAI with LLMs, are typical use cases of supercomputing.
In this seminar, you will:
- discover how the world-class LUMI supercomputer can boost your RDI efforts with demanding simulations, large-scale Al, and high-performance data analytics
- hear more about the LUMI AI Factory service offering
- learn from industrial use cases and the benefits of supercomputing in RDI
- get practical guidance on utilizing the LUMI supercomputer for industrial use
- find out financial support options for your company
- get to know the European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIH) operating in Finland as service centers accelerating the digitalization of SMEs.
The main language of the seminar is English, but the discussion can also be held in Finnish.
The agenda is preliminary and the content may be subject to change.
Agenda
11:00 Lunch
12:00 Welcome: Jukka Pitkänen, Director of Economic Affairs, Business Kuopio
12:15 LUMI supercomputer ready for industrial use
• Introduction to LUMI, the fastest supercomputer in Europe
• How to become a LUMI business user
Mikko Kerttula, Customer manager, CSC
12:45 Business Finland Funding opportunities: Outi Keski-Äijö, Ecosystem Manager & Head of Quantum Computing Campaign, Business Finland
13:15 Break
13:30 Success story
14:00 Working with LUMI – practical guidance on utilizing LUMI effectively: Jyrki Savolainen, Application specialist, CSC
• How to get started with LUMI
• Working procedure & available tools
• CSC’s expert support
14:30 LUMI AI Factory services: Katja Mankinen, Senior Data Scientist, CSC
14:45 Finnish European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIHs) supporting companies digitalization: Intro to EDIHs; Finnish AI Region (FAIR), Location Innovation Hub (LIH), Robocoast and HealthHub Finland
15:30 Networking
16:00 End of day
The seminar is organised in collaboration with all Finnish EDIHs – Finnish AI Region, Location Innovation Hub, HealthHub Finland, Robocoast – together with Business Kuopio, Savonia University of Applied Sciences and CSC – IT Center for Science.