High Performance Compute and Storage Analysis Platform
What the buyer wrote
Diamond Light Source (DLS) wishes to deploy a new platform for the collection and analysis of experimental data from beamlines and electron microscopes. The installation will be in our new data centre and will provide an integrated set of high performance compute nodes and a highly resilient, high performance file system. Diamond already operates a suite of high performance file systems and a HPC cluster in an existing data centre. However, this new system will not be 'tightly coupled' with existing HPC and storage platforms. i.e. it is not planned to extend the low latency, high bandwidth current Infiniband fabric across to the new data centre. This procurement is for the foundations of a n…
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- What the buyer calls it
- High Performance Compute and Storage Analysis Platform
- How they are buying
- Advertised, then negotiatedThe buyer talked terms with bidders rather than taking fixed offers.
- Type
- goods
- Suitable for small firms
- The buyer says yes. What that is worth
- Work starts
- 24 Jun 2018
- Work ends
- 31 Dec 2018
Who the buyer named
Sue Blake was the named contact on this notice.