Kazakhstan Makes Its Debut in Global TOP-500 Supercomputer Ranking

Kazakhstan has officially entered the international TOP-500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers for the first time.

The announcement came from Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of AI and Digital Development Zhaslan Madiyev, who shared the news on his official Instagram page, The Caspian Post reports via Kazakh media.

According to the latest ranking, the NIT JSC supercomputer broke into the TOP-100, placing 86th with a performance of 20.48 PFlop/s (Rmax). The machine appears under the name Alem.Cloud (NITEC).

A second system from Kazakhstan also made the list: the Kazakhtelecom JSC supercomputer, ranked 103rd under the name AI-Farabium. It runs on Supermicro architecture, equipped with Intel Xeon Platinum processors and NVIDIA H200 GPUs.

Madiyev emphasized that the new computing power will soon be available to research centers, universities, IT companies, startups, and government bodies - boosting the country’s capabilities in high-performance computing, complex data modeling, and AI development.

The TOP-500 list, updated twice a year, highlights the most advanced supercomputing systems worldwide.