UK SBS PR17149 CPU 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 approximately 800 dual-processor multi-core Linux servers providing High Throughput batch data processing services. STFC seeked a commodity addition to the Tier-1 batch processing capacity to augment the existing processing capacity and meet the future needs of the GridPP project.
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Details
- What the buyer calls it
- UK SBS PR17149 CPU 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
- 5 Feb 2018
- Work ends
- 4 Feb 2021
Who the buyer named
Professional Services was the named contact on this notice.