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Chinese Government donates supercomputer worth ¥109.66 million CNY to Al-Farabi Kazakh National University in Kazakhstan

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$16,575,962
Commitment Year•2019Country of Activity•KazakhstanDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•KazakhstanSector•EducationFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Pipeline: Commitment

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Sep 10, 2019
Start (actual)
Mar 12, 2021

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

Government Agencies

  • Unspecified Chinese Government Institution

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

  • Al-Farabi Kazakh National University
  • Government of Kazakhstan

Loan description

Chinese Government donates supercomputer worth ¥109.66 million CNY to Al-Farabi Kazakh National University in Kazakhstan

Narrative

Full Description

Project narrative

On June 7, 2017, on an official state trip to Kazakhstan, President Xi Jinping and former Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev signed a Memorandum of Cooperation in which China agreed to provide a supercomputer system to Kazakhstan. On September 10, 2019, on another state visit, the two leaders issued a joint statement in which China specified the donation: the supercomputer is worth RMB 109.66 million and will be sent to Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. The computer system includes 1. Rack System; 2. SKVM; 3. Management Nodes; 4. Login Nodes; 5. High-precision meteorological numerical forecasting system; 6. Gene information processing system; 7. AI & Deep learning Platform System; 8. Simulation Compute Node; 9. Parallel File System; 10. Backup file system; 11. High-end Fault-Tolerant Computer; 12. Infiniband High Speed Network; 13. Gigabit Network; 14. 10 Gigabit Network. The Chinese side will also be sending technical personnel to the Republic of Kazakhstan to carry out installation and commissioning of the equipment, as well as conducting training in operations and maintenance to the extent necessary to ensure the information security of electronic resources to be stored in the installed equipment.