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For a more technical overview:

https://www.lumi-supercomputer.eu/may-we-introduce-lumi/

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And full specs at https://www.lumi-supercomputer.eu/lumis-full-system-architec...

And it looks like the programming environment is running on that hobbyist OS kernel, Linux, that will come to nothing ;-) https://rocmdocs.amd.com/en/latest/index.html

> 1998: Many major companies such as IBM, Compaq and Oracle announce their support for Linux.

> 2000: Dell announces that it is now the No. 2 provider of Linux-based systems worldwide and the first major manufacturer to offer Linux across its full product line

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux

2019 => https://newsroom.ibm.com/2019-07-09-IBM-Closes-Landmark-Acqu...

Linux never had any issues becoming yet another UNIX clone, hence why its strong points are CLI and headless applications.

I bet LUMI researchers won't be doing data analysis on their laptops from Linux distributions.

>I bet LUMI researchers won't be doing data analysis on their laptops from Linux distributions.

I did just that when I used one of LUMI's predecessors. Linux desktops weren't uncommon in my corner of academia.

While at CERN and Fermilab everyone was using mostly Windows 2000 and OS X on their desktops, and many were doing their papers in Framemaker instead of LaTeX.

The creation of the Scientific Linux distribution hardly changed this during the times I was there, and during my last visit for the Alumni Network creation event, it seems to have hardly changed.

This is where I am coming from.

Afaik ROCM only provides fine tuned libs/drivers running on linux. At least it was provided that way years ago when I used and shipped with kinda soft vendor lock only main distros supported but if they provide now with the some tuned hpc OS that would be pretty good idea.

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