Published date: 13 July 2023
Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.
Contract summary
Industry
Computer equipment and supplies - 30200000
IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support - 72000000
Location of contract
SO17 1BJ
Value of contract
£2,655,918.06 to £3,187,101.67
Procurement reference
2022UoS-0606
Published date
13 July 2023
Closing date
1 June 2023
Closing time
12pm
Contract start date
12 June 2023
Contract end date
19 December 2029
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Call-off from a framework agreement
A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established framework agreement.
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
No
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
No
Description
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.
Award information
Awarded date
12 June 2023
Contract start date
12 June 2023
Contract end date
19 December 2029
Total value of contract
£3,187,101.67
This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.
HEWLETT - PACKARD LIMITED
Address
Cain Road
Bracknell
Berkshire
RG12 1HN
GBReference
Companies House number: 00690597
Value of contract
£3,187,101.67
Supplier is SME?
No
Supplier is VCSE?
No
About the buyer
Address
University Road
Southampton
SO17 1BJ
United Kingdom
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