The University of Ljubljana in Slovenia has launched a new high-performance computing (HPC) system.

Named "FRIDA" and situated on the roof of the college’s Faculty of Computer and Information Science (FRI) building in the Slovenian capital, the containerized data center will be used to support interdisciplinary projects between researchers and private-sector stakeholders.

FRIDA is capable of performing at up to 708 petaflops of lower precision computation. DCD has approached the University of Ljubljana for comment.

“FRIDA directly supports the mission of FRI, one of the key drivers of technological development in Slovenia, as it connects top research knowledge with state-of-the-art infrastructure and enables breakthroughs in the field of AI and supercomputing,” said the dean of the FRI, associate professor Dr. Mojca Ciglarič, in a statement. “It offers the Slovenian economy a platform for testing future technologies, which we believe represent a major competitive advantage.”

FRIDA will incorporate 104 seventh-generation GPUs, said the University of Ljubljana, including Nvidia Blackwell B200 and B300 AI GPUs. Connected to a high-performance network and chilled using a hybrid air and liquid-based cooling system, these cores can be used to train AI models in hours or days, the institution added.

As such, said the university, FRIDA is Slovenia’s most powerful HPC system, with a learning capacity capable of performing at 1.42 exaflops “for calculations with sparse matrices of lower precision.” The university also claimed that FRIDA’s learning capacity was twice that of Vega, a 6.9 petaflop HPC system launched in 2021 as part of the European High Performance Computing (EuroHPC) Joint Undertaking.

FRIDA will add to a small but growing data center market in Slovenia. The country currently hosts 20 such facilities, according to DataCenterMap, mostly concentrated in the capital of Ljubljana.

Recent additions include a facility built in 2025 above a postal logistics center for the country’s Ministry of Digital Transformation, and another HPC system in the northeast city of Maribor. Like Vega, the latter project has been part-funded by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking at an overall cost of €18 million ($20.21m) and will house both an HPC system and an “AI factory.”

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