13/06/2022 (Agence Europe) – The fifth supercomputer of the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC) was inaugurated on Monday 13 June in Kajaani, Finland. Called ‘Lumi’, this supercomputer will be capable of performing some 550 million billion calculations per second – making it the 3rd fastest in the world – and it will be powered entirely by renewable energy. “Thanks to its massive computing capacity, Lumi will enable scientific breakthroughs to be achieved much more quickly, such as in the field of medicine and climate research”, commented Executive Vice-President for a Europe fit for the Digital Age, Margrethe Vestager. Four more supercomputers have already been launched by EuroHPC (see EUROPE 12817/31) in Bulgaria, Luxembourg, Slovenia and the Czech Republic, while three more are currently being constructed in Italy, Denmark and Spain. (TM)