Source: https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a13cc7-232b-73aa-8bbd-73646b47dc26/hpc-iridis-6

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# HPC Iridis 6

[University of Southampton](https://tendernation.io/buyers/university-of-southampton)

Estimated value

£2,655,918 to £3,187,102

Published

13 Jul 2023

Deadline

Closed

1 Jun 2023

## About this tender

The University is now looking to procure an updated system (IRIDIS 6) to replace IRIDIS4 under the SSSNA Framework; Lot 4: Solutions - High Performance Computing (HPC) and Data Intensive Computing (DIC) Only.

It is anticipated that the new system will have a high-level specification as follows (illustrated in Figure 1 below): Schematic illustrating draft specification of required system.

• Management infrastructure with highly recoverable management nodes.

• At least 3 login nodes, each with a minimum of 2TB of RAM and 10 TB of RAID-enabled storage.

• Compute nodes arranged in such a way to support highly coupled parallel jobs of up to 32 node.

• A total number of standard compute nodes which maximizes the budget available with at least 4GB of RAM per core and 250 GB of local storage.

• At least 2 'high-memory' nodes with at least 1.5 TB of RAM and 250 GB of local storage.

• A management network with a performance at least matching that of 1Gbps Ethernet.

• A high-performance, low-latency network with a bandwidth of at least 100 Gb/s.

The system will be hosted in the University's data centre. The data centre is specifically designed for water-cooled racks and has limited air-cooling capacity. Therefore, the supplied system should aim to exhaust all waste heat to water. The maximum allocated power load for the system is 300 kW.

Note that no high-performance storage is required; this will requirement will be managed under a separate procurement activity. Provision must be made for the HPC system to interface with such storage.

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## CPV classification

Computer equipment and supplies

Source

Contracts Finder (UK)

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