High Performance Computing Facility Purchase and Future Call Off Framework
What the buyer wrote
The University of Warwick Centre CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING has a requirement for HIGH A PERFORMANCE COMPUTING FACILITY PURCHASE AND FUTURE CALL OFF FRAMEWORK. This tender is concerned with refreshing Warwick’s central High Performance Computing (HPC) facilities. Historically the facilities have been based on one large machine with the current resource (Minerva) comprising approx. 500 nodes and 6000 cores. Rather than decommission this machine completely, the CSC is moving to a model where 50% of its HPC facilities are refreshed every 2 years based on a 4 year lifecycle per 50% of the facility. The rationale is that a more frequent refresh cycle yields quicker access to new technolog…
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Details
- What the buyer calls it
- High Performance Computing Facility Purchase and Future Call Off Framework
- How they are buying
- Advertised, open to anyoneAny supplier could bid without being invited first.
- Type
- goods
- Suitable for small firms
- The buyer says yes. What that is worth
- Work starts
- 29 Jun 2015
- Work ends
- 10 Jun 2016
- Kind of work
- Supplies and catering
Who the buyer named
Marie Hughes was the named contact on this notice.