# HPC Iridis 6

> A sourced UK public sector contract award published by UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON.

## Key facts

- Buyer: [UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON](/buyers/university-of-southampton/contract-awards)
- Supplier: [HEWLETT - PACKARD LIMITED](/suppliers/hewlett-packard/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £3,187,102
- Tender value: £3,187,102
- Award date: 12 June 2023
- Published: 13 July 2023
- Contract start: 12 June 2023
- Contract end: 19 December 2029
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 2e9caef1-3575-40d1-80bb-e42e5c124067-662397
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-b42c750a-b8f2-425e-ac08-0da84cef9274

## Description

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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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/2e9caef1-3575-40d1-80bb-e42e5c124067-662397)