Supercomputing for Business, Kuopio

Thursday 8th May 2025 on 11:00-16:00

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.

Supercomputing for Business seminar is for companies in the Kuopio region interested in booating 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

Time Contents
11:00Lunch
12:00Welcome
Jukka Pitkänen, Director of Economic Affairs, Business Kuopio
12:15LUMI 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
12:45Business Finland Funding opportunities
Outi Keski-Äijö, Ecosystem Manager & Head of Quantum Computing Campaign, Business Finland
13:15Break
13:30Gosta Labs
Anni Mansikkaoja, Country Manager
14:00Working 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 
14:30LUMI AI Factory services
Katja Mankinen, Senior Data Scientist, CSC
14:50Finnish European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIHs) supporting companies digitalization
Intro to EDIHs; Finnish AI Region (FAIR), Location Innovation Hub (LIH), Robocoast and HealthHub Finland
15:30Networking
16:00End 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.

AI and Data AnalyticsBioinformatics and Life SciencesChemistryData ManagementGeoinformaticsHigh Performance ComputingLUMINatural Sciences and MathematicsQuantum Computing