Maintenance and repair of computer equipment

Tender description

Cardiff University, on behalf of HPC Wales Ltd is seeking proposals for a computer maintenance contract covering HPC and associated networking infrastructure for hardware situated at the Bangor, Cardiff and Swansea University sites. HPC Wales comprises a mix of HPC systems based on Intel Westmere and Sandy Bridge processors supplied by Fujitsu using their Primergy servers. Storage is provided by Eternus and DDN Solutions with Quantum Tape Libraries providing backup solution. The majority of this hardware is no longer within an active maintenance agreement, which expired 31.12.2015. This tender is seeking to identify suppliers to rectify existing faults and provide a maintenance contract (break/fix support) for a minimum of 12 months, with options to extend under an incremental process for potentially an additional 12 months. Lot 1: HPC Wales Computer Services; 1-CU-HTC: Cardiff High Throughput Cluster (167 × BX922 Intel Westmere nodes + 1 × RX900 and 4 × RX600 Intel Nehalem nodes); 1-CU-Cap: Cardiff Capacity Cluster (384 × CX250S1 Intel Sandy Bridge nodes); 1-CU-GPU: Cardiff GPU Cluster nodes (16 × CX270 Intel Sandy Bridge nodes); 1-SU-Cap: Swansea Capacity Cluster (128 × CX250S1 Intel Sandy Bridge nodes); 1-SU-Cab: Swansea Capability Cluster (256 × CX250S1 Intel Sandy Bridge nodes); 1-SU-GPU: Swansea GPU Cluster (16 × CX270 Intel Sandy Bridge nodes); 1-BU-T1: Bangor University Cluster (54 × BX922 Intel Westmere nodes); 1-Man-Nodes: Service nodes located at all sites based on Intel Westmere and Sandy Bridge servers. Eternus Storage and Quantum Tape Libraries. The Quantum Tape Libraries refer to installations at Cardiff and Swansea only. DDN Storage (Cardiff and Swansea only). Network Switches and Firewalls (Checkpoint). Mellanox InfiniBand Switch.