en.Wedoany.com Reported - The University of Ljubljana in Slovenia has launched a new high-performance computing (HPC) system named "FRIDA."

Deployed on the rooftop of the Faculty of Computer and Information Science (FRI) building, the FRIDA system adopts a containerized data center design and will support interdisciplinary projects between researchers and the private sector.

FRIDA achieves a computing capacity of 708 petaflops at low precision. Dr. Mojca Ciglarič, Dean of the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, stated that FRIDA directly supports FRI's mission as a key driver of Slovenia's technological development, connecting top-tier research knowledge with state-of-the-art infrastructure to achieve breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and supercomputing. The system provides a platform for Slovenia's economy to test future technologies, representing a significant competitive advantage.

The University of Ljubljana stated that FRIDA is equipped with 104 seventh-generation GPUs, including NVIDIA Blackwell B200 and B300 AI GPUs. These cores are interconnected via a high-performance network and cooled using a hybrid air and liquid cooling system, enabling AI model training within hours or days. The university noted that FRIDA is the most powerful HPC system in Slovenia, with a learning capability reaching 1.42 exaflops in low-precision sparse matrix computing. This learning capability is twice that of the Vega HPC system, a 6.9 petaflops system launched in 2021 as part of the European High Performance Computing (EuroHPC) Joint Undertaking project.

The addition of FRIDA further enriches Slovenia's modest but growing data center market. DataCenterMap data shows that the country currently has 20 such facilities, primarily concentrated in the capital, Ljubljana. Recent facilities include a data center built above the postal logistics center of the Ministry of Digital Transformation in 2025, and another HPC system in the northeastern city of Maribor. Like Vega, the Maribor project is partially funded by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, with a total cost of 18 million euros, and will house an HPC system and an "AI factory."

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