UK SBS PR17148 CEPH Storage Servers for Physics Data Processing at the RAL Tier-1
What the buyer wrote
AWARDED FOLLOWING A CALL OFF COMPETITION UNDER THE SERVERS, STORAGE & SOLUTIONS NATIONAL AGREEMENT (SSSNA) Lot 3B (2016/S 061-103632) The STFC Scientific Computing Department provides a national computing facility (The Tier-1 Service) at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) for the UK particle physics GRID computing project GridPP (http://www.gridpp.ac.uk). The Tier-1 has a large installation of PC Linux storage servers hosting approximately 15PB of physics data, using mainly SATA disks arrays. STFC seeked an affordable commodity storage solution to augment the existing storage provision and meet the needs of the GridPP project. A detailed specification is provided below.
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Details
- What the buyer calls it
- UK SBS PR17148 CEPH Storage Servers for Physics Data Processing at the RAL Tier-1
- How they are buying
- Called off an existing agreementThe work went to a supplier already on a framework or dynamic market.
- Type
- goods
- Suitable for small firms
- The buyer says yes. What that is worth
- Work starts
- 16 Jan 2018
- Work ends
- 15 Jan 2021
Who the buyer named
Tom Ellis was the named contact on this notice.