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Diamond Light Source Ltd

High Performance Compute Cluster Nodes and Interconnect

Office & Computing EquipmentCPV 30000000
ValueValue not published
Awarded20 Jan 2017
Published23 Mar 2017
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

The brief

The scope of this contract is for the supply, delivery and installation of a number of high performance computing cluster nodes (HPC nodes) and associated low latency high bandwidth interconnect.

The total budget for this contract is £300,000 exc.

VAT.

The new hardware procured as part of this contract will need to be delivered and installed by the 31st March 2017.

The service will be required to be installed in such a manner to minimise the downtime of service to Diamond users as this new hardware will be physically replacing existing HPC nodes in use.

The removal and disposal of existing hardware will be the responsibility of Diamond.

The new HPC cluster nodes will be integrated into an existing cluster and storage infrastructure.

The management of the cluster nodes will be based on the use of IPMI and CFEngine, with Redhat used for operating system, and existing storage provided by Lustre and GPFS needing to be supported by any hardware provided.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The scope of this contract is

The scope of this contract is for the supply, delivery and installation of a number of high performance computing cluster nodes (HPC nodes) and associated low latency high bandwidth interconnect.

02

The new hardware procured as part

The new hardware procured as part of this contract will need to be delivered and installed by the 31st March 2017.

03

The service will be required to

The service will be required to be installed in such a manner to minimise the downtime of service to Diamond users as this new hardware will be physically replacing existing HPC nodes in use.

04

The new HPC cluster nodes will

The new HPC cluster nodes will be integrated into an existing cluster and storage infrastructure.

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Source & provenance
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Stage
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