HPC Iridis 6
key details
| Value | £3,187,102 |
|---|---|
| Status | complete |
| Category (CPV) | 30200000 +1 more |
| Deadline | 1 Jun 2023 |
| Contract start | 12 Jun 2023 |
| Contract end | 19 Dec 2029 |
| Procedure | selective |
| SME suitable | No |
| OCID | ocds-b5fd17-b42c750a-b8f2-425e-ac08-0da84cef9274 |
Award
| Supplier | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| HEWLETT - PACKARD LIMITED | £3,187,102 | 11 Jun 2023 | active |
description
The University is now looking to procure an updated system (IRIDIS 6) to replace IRIDIS4 under the SSSNA Framework; Lot 4: Solutions - High Performance Computing (HPC) and Data Intensive Computing (DIC) Only.
It is anticipated that the new system will have a high-level specification as follows (illustrated in Figure 1 below): Schematic illustrating draft specification of required system.
| • | Management infrastructure with highly recoverable management nodes. |
| • | At least 3 login nodes, each with a minimum of 2TB of RAM and 10 TB of RAID-enabled storage. |
| • | Compute nodes arranged in such a way to support highly coupled parallel jobs of up to 32 node. |
| • | A total number of standard compute nodes which maximizes the budget available with at least 4GB of RAM per core and 250 GB of local storage. |
| • | At least 2 'high-memory' nodes with at least 1.5 TB of RAM and 250 GB of local storage. |
| • | A management network with a performance at least matching that of 1Gbps Ethernet. |
| • | A high-performance, low-latency network with a bandwidth of at least 100 Gb/s. |
The system will be hosted in the University's data centre. The data centre is specifically designed for water-cooled racks and has limited air-cooling capacity. Therefore, the supplied system should aim to exhaust all waste heat to water. The maximum allocated power load for the system is 300 kW.
Note that no high-performance storage is required; this will requirement will be managed under a separate procurement activity. Provision must be made for the HPC system to interface with such storage.
notice history
1 notice published against this procurement.
| Published | Type | Regime | Notice |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Jul 2023 | Award (award) | · | 2e9caef1-3575-40d1-80bb-e42e5c124067-662397 |
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