The University of Bonn in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, is set to get a new high-performance computing (HPC) facility.

The University revealed on June 8 that Henn Architekten from Munich had won the competition to design the facility dubbed the “Fraunhofer Center for Next Generation High Performance Data Analytics and Computing,” or NG-HPDAC for short.

The HPC data center is part of a joint research facility for the Fraunhofer Institutes SCAI and IAIS, and will be located near the University of Bonn’s computer science institutes.

It will focus on algorithms for machine learning, large AI models, quantum computing, and energy-efficient high-performance computing.

The building will span 2,424 sqm (26,091 sq ft), including workspaces, and the data center 800 sqm (8,611 sq ft). A total of €56 million ($64m) in investment is expected to cover construction and the initial equipment for the facility.

The expected IT capacity of the facility has not been provided, nor have details about the HPC hardware that will be used.

Construction timelines have also not been provided.

DCD has contacted the University of Bonn for more information.

Bonn is located in North Rhine-Westphalia, south of Cologne. The university is a public research university that was founded in 1818.

According to its website, it currently operates three HPC systems: Marvin, Bonna, and Bender. Marvin is the largest cluster, featuring Intel Xeon Sapphire Rapids CPUs, AMD Epyc Milan CPUs, Nvidia A100s and A40s. Bender, meanwhile, is a “small GPU cluster” that was installed in 2022. Bonna will cease operations this year.

Earlier this year, two research institutions in Berlin – the Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB) and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) – signed an agreement to establish an AI and HPC data center in the Adlershof area of the city.

Last month, former Atos subsidiary Bull delivered the second contracted high-performance computing (HPC) system to aircraft manufacturer Airbus, located in Hamburg, Germany.