Published date: 8 December 2017

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 12 January 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Information systems and servers - 48800000

Location of contract

M13 9PL

Value of contract

£0 to £164,000

Procurement reference

2017/1351/MTRAP/SS/JM/JD

Published date

8 December 2017

Closing date

12 January 2018

Contract start date

30 January 2018

Contract end date

28 March 2018

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The MeerTRAP project is supported by the European Research Council, Advanced Grant, awarded to Prof. B.W. Stappers (University of Manchester). The MeeTRAP group consists of four postdoctoral researchers and three PhD students, all placed at the University of Manchester.
MeerTRAP will be a real-time, fully-commensal survey for repeating and one-off radio signals originating from pulsars and other fast radio transients using the 64-dish MeerKAT telescope in South Africa. MeerTRAP will piggy-back all the other large surveys performed by MeerKAT, and reuse their data in a completely different way to achieve its goals. Having access to thousands of hours of observing time at its disposal, MeerTRAP must be supported by a high-availability, high-performance GPU cluster to allow for the real-time searching of the incoming data, using optimized GPU pipelines developed by the group. MeerKAT is a precursor telescope for the Square Kilometre Array.

The MeerTRAP GPU cluster will be a real-time, commensal processing system hosted in the KAPB, that will process data acquired with the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa. MeerKAT consists of 64 dishes and has the ability to look at many different locations ("beams") in the sky simultaneously. When MeerKAT will be observing, a beamformer (the hardware system responsible for creating these beams), will create 400 beams on the sky simultaneously, with each of them being in essence a data stream. The MeerTRAP cluster will receive these 400 data streams and every GPU in it will be responsible for the real time processing of 3 beams (actually, 396 beams on the 132 GPUs expected to populate the cluster)*. The MeerTRAP cluster will consist a leaf node connected to the spine of the MeerKAT multicast network.

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https://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofmanchester/aspx/Home

Funding Type (WEFO or EU) : EU

Funding Description

The MeerTRAP project is supported by the European Research Council, Advanced Grant, awarded to Prof. B.W. Stappers (University of Manchester). The MeeTRAP group consists of four postdoctoral researchers and three PhD students, all placed at the University of Manchester.
MeerTRAP will be a real-time, fully-commensal survey for repeating and one-off radio signals originating from pulsars and other fast radio transients using the 64-dish MeerKAT telescope in South Africa. MeerTRAP will piggy-back all the other large surveys performed by MeerKAT, and reuse their data in a completely different way to achieve its goals. Having access to thousands of hours of observing time at its disposal, MeerTRAP must be supported by a high-availability, high-performance GPU cluster to allow for the real-time searching of the incoming data, using optimized GPU pipelines developed by the group. MeerKAT is a precursor telescope for the Square Kilometre Array.

The MeerTRAP GPU cluster will be a real-time, commensal processing system hosted in the KAPB, that will process data acquired with the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa. MeerKAT consists of 64 dishes and has the ability to look at many different locations ("beams") in the sky simultaneously. When MeerKAT will be observing, a beamformer (the hardware system responsible for creating these beams), will create 400 beams on the sky simultaneously, with each of them being in essence a data stream. The MeerTRAP cluster will receive these 400 data streams and every GPU in it will be responsible for the real time processing of 3 beams (actually, 396 beams on the 132 GPUs expected to populate the cluster)*. The MeerTRAP cluster will consist a leaf node connected to the spine of the MeerKAT multicast network.



Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

About the buyer

Contact name

Procurement Office

Address

Manchester
Manchester
Manchester
M13 9PL
United Kingdom

Telephone

01612752160

Email

procurement@manchester.ac.uk