Super computer

Tender description

The aim of this procurement is to enter into a contract with a single supplier to supply and support a High Performance Computing (HPC) system sited at Loughborough University. A consortium of the Universities of Aston, Birmingham, Leicester, Loughborough, Nottingham, Queen Mary and Warwick intends to purchase a High Performance Computing facility to serve regional industrial and academic research requirements. The facility will be used both for the running of locally developed codes and commercial packages. This system is funded by the recent EPSRC call for Tier 2 centres and therefore any proposed solution must be delivered, installed and acceptance tested by the 31.3.2017. In order to allow time for acceptance testing we expect the system to be delivered and installed by no later than the 17.2.2017. The consortium intends to spend approximately GBP3.2M including VAT on purchasing the computer system. As a guide we expect that approximately GBP 3m will be spent on the x86 and storage component with the remaining GBP200k on the OpenPOWER component.