The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research is a research institution dedicated to driving the progress of technologies to improve South Africa’s socioeconomic well-being.Established by an Act of Parliament in 1945, the CSIR provides targeted research in various fields, including healthcare, transportation, agriculture, manufacturing, mining and chemistry, serving the public and private sectors. Additionally, the CSIR provides cyberinfrastructure services, including high-performance computing, broadband connectivity and data management to the research community in South Africa.“You can imagine, before 2007, there were no supercomputers in the continent, so we started off with a 2