HPC Iridis 6
This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.
This is a large award for Office & Computing Equipment — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 8,857 valued Office & Computing Equipment tenders in our corpus.
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.
What the supplier must deliver
Compute nodes arranged in such a way
Compute nodes arranged in such a way to support highly coupled parallel jobs of up to 32 node.
Therefore, the supplied system should aim
Therefore, the supplied system should aim to exhaust all waste heat to water.
Provision must be made for the HPC
Provision must be made for the HPC system to interface with such storage.
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