Information systems and servers

Tender description

The MeerTRAP project is supported by a European Research Council Advanced Grant.- Horizon 2020. The University wishes to appoint a Contractor or Contractors to supply the following: 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. 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. Please refer to procurement documents.