Supercomputing for Business, Turku
Thursday 5.9.2024 on 8:30-15:00
Do you want to develop your business faster and more efficiently? Did you know that EuroHPC LUMI, Europe’s fastest supercomputer and one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence platforms, is now also available for R&D activities of Finnish companies. And it doesn’t matter if your business is big or small!
Supercomputing for Business seminar is for companies in Turku region interested to boost their innovations with supercomputing! In seminar you will hear enlightening talks by supercomputing specialists and inspiring industrial use cases where they showcase the benefits they have accomplished with supercomputing in their business. Among other things state of the art Large Language Models (LLM’s) would not be possible without supercomputers.
This seminar you will
- discover how supercomputing can boost your RDI efforts with demanding simulations, large-scale artificial intelligence (Al), and high-performance data analytics
- learn from industrial use cases showcasing the benefits of supercomputing in R&D
- get practical guidance on utilising LUMI for industrial use
- explore financial support options for companies
- get to know the European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIH) operating in Finland, which work especially as service centers that accelerate the digitization of SMEs.
The main language of the seminar is English, the discussion can also be held in Finnish.
Agenda
| Time | Contents |
|---|---|
| 08:30 | Coffee & breakfast |
| 09:00 | Welcome – Introduction of CSC Pekka Uusitalo, Director |
| 09:15 | LUMI supercomputer ready for industrial use • Introduction to LUMI, the fastest supercomputer in Europe • How to become a LUMI business user (inc. Try&Buy project) Mikko Kerttula, Customer manager |
| 09:45 | Business Finland Funding opportunities Outi Keski-Äijö, Ecosystem Manager & Head of Quantum Computing Campaign, Business Finland |
| 10:00 | Break |
| 10:15 | Working with LUMI – Practical guidance on utilizing LUMI effectively Rasmus Kronberg, Application specialist • How to get started with LUMI • Working procedure & available tools • CSC’s expert support |
| 10:45 | LUMI’s Impact at Orion: Driving Innovation and Excellence Tuulikki Tuukkanen, Orion Pharma |
| 11:15 | Lunch and Networking |
| 12:15 | Finnish European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIHs) – represent domain-specific use cases of supercomputing 12:15 – 12:30 Intro to EDIHs; FAIR, LIH, Robocoast, HHFIN 12:30 – 13:00 Training large language models on LUMI – Sampo Pyysalo, TurkuNLP/UTU 13:00 – 13:30 State-of-art and case examples of high-capacity computing in industry set by modern digital manufacturing technologies – Heidi Piili, UTU 13:30 – 14:00 Boosting the efficiency of semiconductor devices with atomistic interface simulations – Milica Todorović, Comptec Solutions Oy |
| 14:00 | Networking |
| 15:00 | 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 Turku and CSC – IT Center for Science.
Time
5.9.2024 08:30 - 15:00
Place
Lemminkäisenkatu 12 b
20520, Turku
Visitor and Innovation Centre Joki, Putous-auditorium
Price
The seminar is free of charge. Seminar includes light breakfast and lunch.
The number of participants is limited to 50. If the number of participants is full, leave your contact information on the waiting list. We will contact you in the seminar week, if there is room available.
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