Supercomputers/Systems/ISSAI Cluster
Kazakhstan · operational · mixed
ISSAI Cluster
Also known as ISSAI AI Computing Cluster; NU ISSAI
Operated by Nazarbayev University at Nazarbayev University (Astana) .
Phase 1 seed dataset, compiled by hand. These rows were built from public operator, laboratory and vendor sources. A mechanical second-reader pass has since fetched every cited source: 1092 of 1153 systems have a readable citation that names them, and 40 are genuinely weakly sourced. Every claim carries its source and a confidence tier. Treat anything below verified as a lead, not a citation.
Measured performance
- Rmax
- -
- Rpeak
- 145.00 TFlop/s
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- -
- Cores
- 1,296
- Power
- -
- Per watt
- - GF/W
Figures are as last publicly reported for the configuration described below, not a live measurement. Where a system was upgraded in place, the post-upgrade configuration is shown and the earlier one appears in the timeline.
What this machine is made of
One row per supplier relationship. “Supplier at build” is the company that shipped the part at the time; where that company has since been acquired, the parent it rolls up to today is shown beside it. That distinction is what makes ticker-level aggregation possible across a thirty-year dataset.
| Role | Part | Supplier at build | Quantity | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accelerator | - NVIDIA Tesla A100 40 GB (72 GPUs total across A100 and V100) | NVIDIA | - | Reported | issai.nu.edu.kz |
| Accelerator | NVIDIA Tesla V100 Accelerators CUDA (Volta GV100) · 5,120C · 1.53 GHz · 12 nm · 300 W NVIDIA Tesla V100 16 GB (72 GPUs total across A100 and V100) | NVIDIA | - | Reported | issai.nu.edu.kz |
The read
The AI computing cluster of the Institute of Smart Systems and Artificial Intelligence (ISSAI) at Nazarbayev University, described as seven compute nodes plus a head node on InfiniBand with 72 NVIDIA GPUs of two models (Tesla A100 40 GB and Tesla V100 16 GB), 1,296 CPU cores, 6.7 TB of RAM, 124 TB of storage and a 145 TFlop/s peak of which 25 TFlop/s is GPU. The page does not split the 72 GPUs between models, give vendors for the nodes or the fabric, or date the installation. Only one page was fetched for this system, so the tier is reported.
Timeline
No dated events recorded.
Site & facility
Change history
- 2026-10-04 ISSAI Cluster added, the 72-GPU A100/V100 AI cluster of Nazarbayev University's ISSAI institute in Astana (145 TFlop/s peak)
Source check
We fetched this system's own citations and recorded whether each page actually mentions it. This is a corroboration signal, not a fact check, and it is published so you can see how well the sourcing holds up rather than take it on trust.
| Cited source | Result | Found on the page |
|---|---|---|
| issai.nu.edu.kz | names system and part | NVIDIA Tesla V100 |
Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.