Supply of High-Performance Computing System (IRIDIS 6) to University of Southampton

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University of Southampton awarded a contract to Hewlett-Packard Limited for the procurement of an updated high-performance computing system, IRIDIS 6, to replace IRIDIS4 under the SSSNA Framework, Lot 4: Solutions - High Performance Computing (HPC) and Data Intensive Computing (DIC).

The system includes management infrastructure with highly recoverable management nodes, at least 3 login nodes each with a minimum of 2TB RAM and 10TB RAID-enabled storage, compute nodes supporting highly coupled parallel jobs of up to 32 nodes, standard compute nodes maximizing budget with at least 4GB RAM per core and 250GB local storage, at least 2 high-memory nodes with at least 1.5TB RAM and 250GB local storage, a management network with at least 1Gbps Ethernet performance, and a high-performance low-latency network with at least 100Gb/s bandwidth.

The system will be hosted in the University's data centre, designed for water-cooled racks with limited air-cooling, and should exhaust all waste heat to water, with a maximum power load of 300 kW.

No high-performance storage is required as it will be managed separately, but provision must be made for interfacing with such storage.

The contract value is AUD 3,187,101.67.