UK SBS PR17149 CPU Servers for Physics Data Processing at the RAL Tier-1

AWARDED FOLLOWING A CALL OFF COMPETITION UNDER THE SERVERS, STORAGE & SOLUTIONS NATIONAL AGREEMENT (SSSNA) Lot 3B (2016/S 061-103632) The STFC Scientific Computing Department provides a national computing facility (The Tier-1 Service) at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) for the UK particle physics GRID computing project GridPP (http://www.gridpp.ac.uk). The Tier-1 has approximately 800 dual-processor multi-core Linux servers providing High Throughput batch data processing services. STFC seeked a commodity addition to the Tier-1 batch processing capacity to augment the existing processing capacity and meet the future needs of the GridPP project.