Multimedia equipment

Tender description

The Hartree Centre of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is entered into a tender process for the procurement of new visualisation facilities at its new building on the same campus, installation of new collaborative and development rooms and integration of existing equipment at its new premises on the Daresbury Laboratories site. The Hartree Centre of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) entered into a tender process for the procurement of new visualisation facilities at its new building on the same campus, installation of new collaborative and development rooms and integration of existing equipment at its new premises on the Daresbury Laboratories site. The newly relocated and updated visualisation facilities will complement a large investment in supercomputing capabilities at the Hartree Centre, Daresbury. In addition to large-scale visualisation, these procured facilities must be capable of supporting collaborative working with partners on site locally and offsite via collaborative communications technologies. Connectivity between visualisation and High Performance computing for scalability and computational steering will also be an important element. Interoperability and flexibility is also key, so as to be able to address future use cases. The supplier will be expected to work collaboratively with Hartree (and its academic and commercial partners) to develop visualisation capabilities for future extreme high performance and data intensive computing systems and to enable the wider the use of high performance computing technology by UK industry to enhance the UK's international competitiveness. The main purpose of this procurement is to fit out the newly built visualisation facility in the relocated Hartree Centre in Building 2, to establish a fully operational visual computing centre for demonstration, project delivery and on-going development. This will include a new flat wall based visualisation room, 2 new Visual Collaboration Labs (VCLs), integration of the existing curved screen facility and an Emerging Technology Lab (ETL) which will be used for evaluation, showcasing and development of key new technologies.