Supply, Delivery and Installation of High Performance Compute Cluster Nodes and Interconnect to Diamond Light Source
Diamond Light Source Ltd · Awarded contract
AwardedSupply, Delivery and Installation of High Performance Compute Cluster Nodes and Interconnect to Diamond Light Source
Awarded 06 Feb 2017
Awarded06 Feb 2017
Value£300,000.00
SupplierDell Computer Corporation
AgencyDiamond Light Source Ltd
RegionUnited Kingdom
CategoryIT & Software
Ended 9y 7mo ago2mo term
Awarded 6 Feb 2017Expired 30 Mar 2017
About
Diamond Light Source Ltd awarded a contract to Dell Computer Corporation for the supply, delivery and installation of high performance computing (HPC) cluster nodes and associated low latency high bandwidth interconnect.
The contract, valued at £300,000 exc.
VAT, required delivery and installation by 31 March 2017.
The new hardware was to replace existing HPC nodes with minimal downtime for Diamond users, with removal and disposal of existing hardware handled by Diamond.
The HPC nodes were integrated into an existing cluster and storage infrastructure, managed using IPMI and CFEngine, running Red Hat operating system, and supporting Lustre and GPFS storage.
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