Iceland’s atNorth acquires Gompute to strengthen full stack HPC offering and Nordic footprint

Reykjavik, Iceland-based atNorth, a company that specialises in high-performance computing and artificial intelligence services, announced on Tuesday that it has acquired Gompute, a firm known for providing High Performance Computing (HPC) and data centre services. 

Founded in 2002, Gompute helps CAE (Computer-Aided Engineering) users to run compute intensive simulations with high demands on performance, throughput and ease of use, combined with support services. 

The agreement

According to the agreement, atNorth will add Gompute’s data centre in Gothenburg, Sweden, with a capacity potential of 10MW to its portfolio, further strengthening its position in the fast-growing HPC market. 

Gompute’s advanced HPC technology, skilled engineers, and strong customer base, combined with atNorth’s HPC-as-a-service solution and colocation platform, will provide customers with a compelling pan-nordic full stack offering tailored to HPC and AI workloads.  

“Since the start of our discussions, we have found atNorth to be a cultural fit with a like-minded approach,” states Daniel Persson, CEO and co-founder of Gompute. 

“We feel strongly that the company has the management, corporate backing, and global presence to build on our HPC offering with its strong Nordics presence and international reach.”

“With our shared values, culture, and commitment to the industry, we are excited to join atNorth and feel confident that they are best placed to support our customers, provide growth opportunities for our employees, and drive the critical innovation needed within the HPC market,” adds Persson.

atNorth: Pan-Nordic data centre service

Founded in 2009, atNorth is a Pan-Nordic data centre services company that offers sustainable, cost-effective, scalable colocation, and high-performance computing services across Iceland, Sweden and Finland. 

The company operates six data centres in strategic locations across the Nordics, with a seventh site to open in Helsinki, Finland, in Q3 2024. 

With sustainability at its core, atNorth’s data centres run on renewable energy resources and support circular economy principles. 

The company says that all atNorth sites leverage innovative design, power efficiency, and intelligent operations to provide long-term infrastructure and flexible colocation deployments. 

The tailor-made solutions enable businesses to calculate, simulate, train and visualise data workloads in an efficient and cost-optimised way. 

In 2022, the company was acquired by Partners Group.

“Gompute has been at the forefront of running hugely sophisticated high-performance applications for high-profile organisations with some of the industry’s most highly skilled engineers for over 20 years,” says atNorth’s CEO, Eyjolfur Magnús Kristinsson.

“This acquisition forms a significant part of atNorth’s growth strategy as the leading provider of data centre and HPC infrastructure in the Nordics and we are thrilled to be welcoming them to the atNorth family,” adds Kristinsson.

Kristinsson continues, “As we continue to see a huge surge in demand for HPC and AI workloads, we want to be driving innovation and technology so that we can continue to provide our customers with the best, future-proofed solutions for their needs both now and going forward. This acquisition will ensure that we can continue to meet this demand fast enough, keep up with global market needs, and power next generation sustainable IT operations from the Nordics region.”