What we do
Cyberinfrastructure
We promote scientific and industrial development by providing high-performance computing, high-speed network capacity and a national research data infrastructure. These are integrated into local and globally connected systems, offering seamless access to South Africa's research and education communities.
Cyberinfrastructure
We promote scientific and industrial development by providing high-performance computing, high-speed network capacity and a national research data infrastructure. These are integrated into local and globally connected systems, offering seamless access to South Africa's research and education communities.
Cyberinfrastructure
We promote scientific and industrial development by providing high-performance computing, high-speed network capacity and a national research data infrastructure. These are integrated into local and globally connected systems, offering seamless access to South Africa's research and education communities.
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Highlights
CSIR expertise advances conversation on data sovereignty and digital infrastructure
Senior cloud and infrastructure engineer at the CSIR, Otshepeng Mabuse, participated in the 20th Public Sector Innovation Conference, which was held at Bela-Bela in Limpopo, from 19 to 21 August 2026. As our government continues to embrace the need for digital transformation, secure, resilient and locally maintained digital infrastructure is getting more important than ever. Otshepeng highlighted that her central idea was that every digital-government policy must eventually meet a machine. Read more
Two terabytes of genetic sequence data sent at high speed
The CSIR’s supercomputing experts supported a major African research institute in transferring vast amounts of genomic data to a Harvard University server in just 45 minutes – a task that would have originally taken over a month. The Africa Health Research Institute regularly relies on the team for support. Using 100 GB-per-second data transfer nodes based in Johannesburg, South African National Research Network completed the transfer in under an hour at a rate of eight GB per second.
Second place for South African students in international supercomputing competition
The 2025 Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) team achieved second place overall in the online component of the international Student Cluster Competition, held during the ISC25 Conference in Hamburg, Germany. Competing against 21 university teams across the globe, the CHPC team upheld the centre’s track record on the high-performance computing stage. The team comprised four students from Cape Peninsula University of Technology, one from the University of the Western Cape and one from the University of the Witwatersrand.
Our research and development
National Integrated Cyber Infrastructure System
We advance high-performance computing in South Africa as part of a national initiative of the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation. We promote scientific and industrial development by providing high-performance computing capability, high-speed network capacity and a national research data infrastructure that is hierarchically integrated into globally connected systems and local systems, ensuring seamless access for South Africa's research and education communities. Click here to read more information on NICIS.
