Europe expands AI computing network with €390 million order from France’s Bull
The contract expands Europe’s publicly funded AI network and is designed to deliver about 10 times the AI capacity of the existing LUMI system.
- On Monday, EuroHPC Joint Undertaking selected French state-owned Bull to build the €387.8 million LUMI-AI supercomputer in Finland, marking the sixth machine ordered under the AI Factories programme.
- This contract represents Bull's largest ever, following the French state's purchase of the business from Atos five months ago. Government ownership of a major supercomputer manufacturer would have been unusual three years ago.
- Funding is split equally between EuroHPC and a consortium including Finland, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Norway, and Poland. The machine will use AMD Instinct MI430X accelerators and EPYC processors to deliver ten times the existing LUMI capacity.
- While the system features storage by IBM and networking by Nokia, it relies on American-designed AMD chips at its core. This mix captures Europe's progress toward technological sovereignty while underscoring dependencies on foreign suppliers.
- Deployment is scheduled for the second half of 2027, when the system will run AI training and inference alongside scientific simulations. The real test will be translating the European infrastructure strategy into usable computing capacity.
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EU orders AI supercomputer from Bull as demand grows
The European Union has awarded French state-owned Bull a €387.8m contract to build a new AI-focused supercomputer, the company's largest-ever order, as Europe seeks to expand computing capacity and close the gap with the US and China.
The EU has awarded its largest order to Bull AI so far. The French state-owned company is to build a high-performance computer in Finland for 387.8 million euros.
Europe expands AI computing network with €390 million order from France's Bull
Europe is expanding its network of publicly funded AI supercomputers with a €387.8 million ($449.4 million) system from French state-owned Bull, as part of a push to close a computing deficit with the U.S. and China.
The French Bull won a contract of 387.8 million euros to design a supercomputer dedicated to artificial intelligence. The machine will be assembled in Angers before being delivered to Finland in the second half of 2027.
Europe has ordered a €388M AI supercomputer from its own state-owned champion
Europe is buying another AI supercomputer, and this one is headed to Kajaani in northern Finland. LUMI-AI is a €387.8 million system, roughly $449 million, that will be built by Bull, the French supercomputer maker that the French state bought outright five months ago. The order is the sixth AI Factory procurement contract signed by […] This story continues at The Next Web
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