Cassava AI Factory
Cassava Technologies, Africa's first NVIDIA Cloud Partner, runs its South African AI Factory as sovereign AI capacity that keeps data in-country and tunes models for African languages, healthcare, energy and agriculture.
What it runs and how to get time
From the operator- Used for What the operator says the system is used for: science domains, missions or workloads. Taken from the operator, its funder or the system vendor, not from TOP500.
- Sovereign AI: local-language model tuning (Swahili, Zulu, Afrikaans) and models for healthcare, energy, agriculture, telecoms, finance and mining 4
- How to get time How researchers or customers get time on the system, naming the allocation programme where the operator states one.
- Rented as cloud capacity: GPU-as-a-service and AI-as-a-service via APIs, plus the CAIMEx platform for building and deploying AI apps 4
- Upgrade or successor Announced upgrade, expansion, successor or retirement plan, with dates where the operator gives them.
- AI Factories planned for Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt and Morocco after South Africa 4
Benchmark and hardware
Source per value- Rank Position in the TOP500 edition named in the Edition column. Historic systems keep the rank of the edition where they last appeared.
- 36 1
- Rmax PFLOP/s Measured double-precision LINPACK (HPL) performance of the listed configuration. Older TFLOP/s and GFLOP/s figures are converted to PFLOP/s.
- 77.79 1
- Rpeak PFLOP/s Theoretical peak double-precision performance of the listed configuration. This is not AI or mixed-precision throughput.
- 102.16 1
- HPL efficiency % Rmax divided by Rpeak: the share of theoretical peak the system delivered on LINPACK. Computed from the two sourced figures.
- 76.1 1
- Site Host or operator named by TOP500 for the installation.
- Africa Data Centres – CPT1 1
- Country Country or region reported by TOP500 for the site.
- South Africa 1
- City Site city as reported by TOP500 or the operator. It can be the operator address rather than the machine room.
- Cape Town 3
- Region World region of the installation country (grouping applied by this site).
- Middle East & Africa 1
- Vendor Manufacturer or system supplier exactly as submitted to TOP500.
- HPE 1
- Vendor group Supplier grouped for filtering. Bull is the Eviden/Atos line; Other covers single-system suppliers.
- HPE 1
- System model Hardware platform in the cited TOP500 edition.
- HPE Cray XD670 1
- Processor CPU description in the cited TOP500 edition; clock and core count refer to the processor model.
- Xeon Platinum 8558 48C 2.1GHz 1
- Accelerator Accelerator model listed for the system. Empty when TOP500 lists none.
- NVIDIA H200 SXM5 141 GB 1
- Accelerator vendor Maker of the accelerator. None listed means TOP500 names no accelerator for the system.
- NVIDIA 1
- Interconnect Network fabric exactly as listed in the cited TOP500 edition.
- Infiniband NDR 1
- Fabric Interconnect family derived from the listed interconnect (grouping applied by this site).
- InfiniBand 1
- Cores cores Total cores submitted to TOP500, including accelerator cores where TOP500 counts them. Not a CPU-only count and not a CUDA-core count.
- 285,696 1
- Installed Installation year reported in the TOP500 system record. Not necessarily the year of production acceptance.
- 2026 2
- Edition TOP500 edition (YYYY-MM) that supplies the ranking and benchmark data. A historic edition does not assert current operating status.
- 2026-06 1
- OS Operating system from the TOP500 system record.
- Linux 2
- TOP500 record Link to the TOP500 database record for this exact submission.
- https://www.top500.org/system/180464/ 2
- Access model How the operator describes who can use the system.
- GPU as a Service and AI APIs 4
Sources
- TOP500 list, June 2026 accessed 2026-11-11
- TOP500 system record accessed 2026-11-11
- TOP500 site record accessed 2026-11-11
- cassavatechnologies.com (operator page) accessed 2026-11-11