Cassava AI Factory node architecture
Cassava AI Factory is operated by Africa Data Centres – CPT1 in South Africa. This profile covers Ranked system / partition. Specifications are listed below; anything the operator has not published is itemised in the documented-fields list.
Published benchmark (TOP500 · June 2026)
- HPL rank
- #36
- HPL Rmax
- 77.79 PFlop/s
- Theoretical peak Rpeak
- 102.16 PFlop/s
- Ranked core count
- 285,696
Cluster · HPE Cray XD670 · public profile
- Operator / site
- Africa Data Centres – CPT1
- Country
- South Africa
- Profile scope
- Ranked system / partition
- Data checked
- 14 September 2026
- Manufacturer
- HPE
- Ranked core count
- 285696
- Theoretical peak (PFlop/s)
- 102.16
- Operating system
- Linux
HPE Cray XD670 · public profile
Items marked ▧ come from the documented HPE Cray XD670 platform specification.
- System / node model
- HPE Cray XD670
- CPU model
- Xeon Platinum 8558 48C 2.1GHz
- CPU sockets per node
- 2
- Cores per socket
- 48
- Physical CPU cores
- 96
- Accelerator model
- NVIDIA H200 SXM5 141 GB
- Physical accelerators per node
- 8
- Accelerator memory
- 141 GB per accelerator
- Interface-to-accelerator topology
- Eight PCIe Gen5 x16 half-height slots for GPUDirect RDMA network adapters
- Form factor
- 5U single-node chassis · 6 Titanium power supplies (N+2)
Scope and uncertainty
Neither Cassava Technologies nor Africa Data Centres publishes a hardware specification for this system; their pages name NVIDIA accelerators and NVIDIA Cloud Partner reference architectures without a configuration. The Cape Town facility page gives building and power figures only. Accelerators per node follow the documented HPE Cray XD670 chassis. Node specifications follow the documented HPE Cray XD670 platform (5U single-node chassis, two sockets, eight SXM5 accelerators); operator-specific deviations are not published.
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Every field this catalog checks. Fields listed above have a value; the remainder are shown here. A field marked absent is not publicly available in the sources we could verify, which does not mean the hardware is missing. Fields that cannot apply, such as benchmark results for an unranked system, are excluded from the total.
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- ✓Manufacturer
- ✓Ranked core count
- ✓Theoretical peak (PFlop/s)
- ✕Measured power (kW)
- ✕Energy efficiency (GFlop/s per watt)
- ✓Operating system
- ✕Network topology
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- ✓System / node model
- ✕Compute nodes of this type
- ✓CPU model
- ✓CPU sockets per node
- ✓Cores per socket
- ✓Physical CPU cores
- ✕CPU note
- ✓Accelerator model
- ✓Physical accelerators per node
- ✕Host / unified memory
- ✓Accelerator memory
- ✕Accelerator ↔ accelerator link
- ✕On-node fabric
- ✕CPU ↔ accelerator link
- ✕Network interfaces per node
- ✕Interface model
- ✕Interface speed
- ✓Interface-to-accelerator topology
- –Aggregate scale-out per node
- ✕GPUDirect RDMA
- ✕Management / storage networking
- ✕Local storage
- –NVMe data disks
- –Max remote data disks
- –Uncached disk IOPS
- –Uncached disk throughput (MBps)
- ✓Form factor
Sources
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