# Mini Competition for High Throughput Compute Nodes

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
- Contract winner: [XMA Limited](/contract-winners/xma/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £79,897
- Tender value: £79,897
- Award date: 23 December 2016
- Published: 18 January 2017
- Contract start: 3 January 2017
- Contract end: 31 January 2017
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: goods
- Notice ID: 688c3e9b-db1f-4e00-81ae-ae22a32db989-125824
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-fa7f023d-1442-489d-968c-604f44e4fd6d

## Description

This procurement is to procure additional compute nodes for UCL's Centurion HTC Cluster\. Centurion is a heterogeneous High Throughput Computing cluster and is composed of the following elements: \(a\) Data Network: Connectivity to storage is provided over Ethernet\. \(b\) Login node: Sun Fire X4250, 8-core, dual socket Intel-based server with 16GB of RAM\. In addition to the above infrastructure elements, the Centurion cluster contains a number of different node types which cater for the differing workloads of the scientific community at UCL

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/688c3e9b-db1f-4e00-81ae-ae22a32db989-125824)