A project of PacketFive — bringing university-grade AI and HPC training within reach of any laptop.
HiCAIN exists to close the access gap in AI and high-performance computing education. The hardware required to learn modern GPU clusters and high-speed fabrics now exceeds the budgets of most universities, research groups and independent learners.
By pairing open-source course material with the PacketFive Virtual Datacenter (VDC) simulation stack, we give every student access to the exact APIs, fabrics and behaviours of a production AI cluster — on the laptop they already own.
HiCAIN is built and operated by PacketFive (Packet Five Networks Limited), an Irish R&D start-up focused on the AI/HPC datacenter space.
Course content, the LMS platform and the underlying VDC labs are all open-source under permissive licences.
Material is built on the same primary sources used in graduate-level networking and systems courses — and is peer-reviewable.
From self-taught engineers to formal university programmes, HiCAIN content is licensed for free educational use and welcomes collaboration.
The fastest way to see what HiCAIN is about is to sign up and try a course.