El Khawarizmi Supercomputer

Tunisia's first high-performance computing system, donated by the People's Republic of China to the Centre de Calcul El Khawarizmi (CCK) at the University of Manouba under bilateral cooperation. The donation itself is valued at about 10.6 million dollars (32 million Tunisian dinars) against a total project cost near 35 million dinars once CCK's own facility and complementary-equipment spending is included, according to Tunisian press including La Presse, Entreprises Magazine and Tunisie Numerique. CCK's own account of the 23 July 2026 inauguration ceremony thanks a SOHO-ZTE-DSHELL consortium, naming ZTE explicitly, for the installation, integration, configuration and commissioning of the system, with SOHO's Lingyuan Yang credited as deployment project manager; no other source found corroborates ZTE's specific role, so that fact is treated as single-sourced. Tunisian press describes the machine as the third most powerful supercomputer on the African continent after South Africa and Morocco, and reports a pilot and training phase of more than three months for the university community beginning at the inauguration, ahead of official commissioning, which is why status is recorded here as under_construction rather than operational. No source found gives a model name, processor or GPU specification, core count, FLOPS figure or power draw, so those fields are left blank rather than guessed.