AI Computing Facility
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key details
| Value | £101,996 |
|---|---|
| Status | complete |
| Category (CPV) | 48820000 |
| Deadline | 3 Apr 2025 |
| Contract start | 15 Apr 2025 |
| Contract end | 29 May 2025 |
| Procedure | selective |
| SME suitable | Yes |
| OCID | ocds-b5fd17-ddf3a535-20e5-474d-9ccb-a3662fe84806 |
Award
| Supplier | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dell Corporation Limited | £101,996 | 14 Apr 2025 | active |
description
The University of Southampton requires 4 R760xa systems and as many Nvidia L4 GPUs as possible with servers meeting the following specification. There must be a maximum of 8 GPUs per server.
- CPU - Minimum of 12 threads per GPU, either Intel or AMD with minimum clock speeds of 2 Ghz normal, 3 Ghz boost
- RAM - 10GB per thread
- 800GB Minimum Solid State Fault Tolerant storage for OS, RAID 1.
- 7.68TB Minimum Read Intensive NVMe storage for local dataset storage
- Backplane - PCIe version 4 or above
- Redundant power supplies
- Remote server management that must include KVM over IP with console redirection and control.
- 1x Infiniband Mellanox ConnectX-6 Single Port HDR
- 1x 25GBase-T NIC for login traffic
- 1x 1Gbe NIC for management traffic
- Keep your own disk
- 5 Year next business day onsite warranty
- 1x 5m 25gbs Twinax cable for each server
The system must be compatible with the 3 existing R760xa systems the University already has.
A 5 year warranty period must be included.
notice history
1 notice published against this procurement.
| Published | Type | Regime | Notice |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Apr 2025 | Award (award) | · | 77fe1fe2-4c28-42e6-81a7-94a17d51bbc5-842529 |
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