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Large Scale Access to LUMI AI Factory

The Large Scale Access to LUMI AI Factory provides EU-based SMEs and startups substantial, production-grade access to LUMI supercomputer GPUs (over 50.000 GPU hours, up to 1 year). Upon passing an eligibility and technical review and peer-review evaluation based on innovation and impact, it supports mature projects to achieve full scalability, deployment readiness, and high-impact AI outcomes. The resources are free of charge for civilian and innovation purposes of eligible companies.   

Service features

Services based on EuroHPC JU Large Scale Access to LUMI AI Factory (for all EU-based SMEs & startups), including:

  • Compute: Over 50.000 GPU hours (up to millions) on the LUMI supercomputer partition (AMD MI250x GPUs)
  • Storage: Comprehensive, agreed individually; dedicated project storage, large scratch space, and data transfer support
  • Duration: Up to 12 months
  • Cost: Free of charge for startups and SMEs
  • Support:
    • Technical support for full onboarding, dedicated expert assistance, performance engineering, and co-design
    • Integrated consultancy through AI Factory ecosystem (e.g., full-stack porting, production inference, large-scale data handling, custom training strategies)

Intended Activities / Supported Workload

The Large Scale Access to LUMI supercomputer is suitable for production-grade R&D, full-scale training, and deployment preparation such as:

  • Large-scale training of custom or foundation models (CV, NLP, multimodal, enterprise LLMs)
  • Extensive experimentation and hyperparameter sweeps on AMD MI250X
  • End-to-end data pipelines for massive datasets
  • Full model training cycles with distributed computing
  • Optimized NVIDIA → AMD migrations at scale
  • Production inference benchmarking and deployment testing
  • Scaling prototypes to enterprise AI solutions (e.g., mission-critical assistants, complex predictive systems, industry-specific analytics)

Reporting Requirements

Standard EuroHPC JU Final Report is required:

  • Detailed high-level project summary
  • Comprehensive description of services used and outcomes
  • Non-confidential technical outline with scalability results and benchmarks
  • Prominent acknowledgement of LUMI AI Factory/EuroHPC resources
    No sensitive business information or trade secrets are required.

Access/Output Requirements

  • Access Requirements: Application form based on a template explaining proposal relevance 
  • Output requirements: Upon project completion, applicants must submit a Final Report within 3 months after the allocation end date, using the template available on the Large Scale Access to AI factories – The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU)​
  • They commit to publishing results (excluding confidential parts) while referencing EuroHPC JU and the AI Factory; data and models remain user-owned for commercial use by SMEs/startups.

Target groups

SMEs and startups

Not eligible under this package:

  • Academia and public organisations should apply for resources through “AI for Science and Collaborative Projects” call, or other JU instruments

Request process

Access is granted within 10 working days from cut-off date provided that the proposal successfully passes the evaluation. The proposals are evaluated by LUMI AIF’s Industry Innovation Group for innovation (assessing the innovative nature of the application), impact (assessing the potential impacts and contributions of the application), and ethical issues.

The Large Access call is continuously open with predefined cut-off dates (two per month). (as per: https://www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/large-scale-access-ai-factories_en#details)

Please note: Large Access resources are no longer available for the year 2026.

Pricing

The computing resources are provided open and free of charge to eligible AI startups and SMEs for innovation purposes. A short, non‑confidential report (for example a brief abstract of the use case and main outcomes) may be requested for public funding accountability, but detailed technical results and proprietary know‑how remain confidential and do not have to be disclosed.

Questions related to potential state‑aid implications, de minimis rules, or paid access for large companies are handled outside this Large Scale scheme under national calls and contracts, where confidentiality (including NDAs) is ensured according to national and site‑specific procedures.