en.Wedoany.com Reported - The University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) has opened a new High-Performance Computing (HPC) lab, designed to support students enrolled in its "Artificial Intelligence and High-Performance Computing" program.

Located at FHNW's Brugg-Windisch campus in the canton of Aargau, the lab features a CPU cluster operated jointly with the Astronomical Institute of the University of Bern (AIUB), as well as a "modern GPU cluster" equipped with Nvidia H200 GPUs interconnected via a high-speed 400 Gbps network, alongside GPUs such as the RTX A4500 and RTX 3080, according to the FHNW website. Specific details about the data center housing the HPC cluster have not been disclosed.

In a statement released before the lab's opening, FHNW noted that students will gain valuable access to a real, evolving HPC environment and will be the first to actively use the lab through project work, practical courses, or GPU-supported interactive environments. The lab is envisioned as a space for both learning and experimentation, where students can test the entire stack—from code to hardware—on a live system. FHNW added that the new HPC lab will serve as a central learning environment for students in the "Artificial Intelligence and High-Performance Computing" program, and will also include specialized software environments and scalable storage solutions for data analysis, simulation, machine learning, and AI application research.

Professor Dr. Tomasz Kacprzak, newly appointed director of the FHNW HPC Lab, stated that more computing power will drive new inventions in the field of artificial intelligence, and that through this lab, FHNW aims to become a key player in technology transfer within this evolving domain.

This new HPC facility will expand the small data center market in the canton of Aargau, which currently has only two facilities managed by operator Green, as well as a 480MW data center planned by energy supplier Flexbase. According to its website, FHNW enrolls nearly 15,000 students across four different campuses in Switzerland. Although student numbers have steadily increased since 2018, the university currently faces a structural deficit of 5 million Swiss francs (approximately $6.32 million), according to SRF.ch, prompting FHNW to cut 40 full-time teaching positions.

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