Planning

RESuME high-performance computing (HPC) and storage solution

UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE

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Planning

27 Oct 2020 at 00:00

Summary of the contracting process

The University of Strathclyde is initiating a procurement process for the "RESuME high-performance computing (HPC) and storage solution" under the education sector in Glasgow, UK. This contract is currently at the planning stage, with a known future notice date set for 1st December 2020. Interested parties should register their interest in this prior information notice by 6th November 2020. The procurement method will involve a tender process for the acquisition of goods that will support the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) in developing intelligent and connected systems.

This tender presents significant opportunities for businesses in the technology and manufacturing sectors, particularly those specialising in high-performance computing and data storage solutions. Companies capable of providing advanced on-premise hardware, as well as software that supports container orchestration and data management, would be well-suited to compete for this contract. The successful supplier will play a key role in enhancing the capabilities of NMIS to integrate and manage manufacturing systems in Scotland.

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Notice Title

RESuME high-performance computing (HPC) and storage solution

Notice Description

At this time, the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) is exploring the potential to create a suite of intelligent and connected systems in order to illustrate and test the possibilities from a streamlined supply chain network within Scotland. This testbed is called RESuME which will comprise of hardware and software solutions aimed at integrating manufacturing equipment and supporting systems across NMIS specialist facilities (AFRC, LMC and Digital Factory) under the ISA-95 model.

Lot Information

Lot 1

NMIS is currently looking to purchase on-premise high-performance computing (HPC) and storage solution. The HPC solution will comprise of 2 elements: - On-premise hardware solution, consisting of multiple CPUs, GPUs, and with flash storage for the OS partition and disk storage for local data. The processing capability should be sufficient for an enterprise level HPC (approximate order of 10 petaFLOPS in AI applications), GPUs to be CUDA-enabled and multi-instance GPU capability is desirable. - Software solution installed on hardware solution, capable of operating a container-orchestration environment such as Kubernetes or similar, supporting initially 50 users (with expectation to grow to 250+ over 3 years), capable of hosting 3rd party software and API's. The storage solution will operate as a Data Lake and will comprise of: - One main storage node within the AFRC, consisting of hot and cold storage. - Two satellite storage nodes within 2 other NMIS facilities (locations TBC) - Software solution installed across all nodes to allow management and access, providing global name space, access to many different data/transfer protocols, tiering storage, lifecycle management, data recovery, encryption and meta data management.

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-r6ebe6-0000634375
Publication Source
Public Contracts Scotland
Latest Notice
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=OCT398129
Current Stage
Planning
All Stages
Planning

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
OJEU - F1 - Prior Information Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Goods
Procurement Method
Not Specified
Procurement Method Details
Not specified
Tender Suitability
Not specified
Awardee Scale
Not specified

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

30 - Office and computing machinery, equipment and supplies except furniture and software packages

48 - Software package and information systems


CPV Codes

30211000 - Mainframe computer

30211100 - Super computer

30211500 - Central processing unit (CPU) or processors

30233180 - Flash memory storage devices

48000000 - Software package and information systems

48100000 - Industry specific software package

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
Not specified
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
27 Oct 20205 years ago
Submission Deadline
Not specified
Future Notice Date
1 Dec 2020Expired
Award Date
Not specified
Contract Period
Not specified - Not specified
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Planned
Lots Status
Planned
Awards Status
Not Specified
Contracts Status
Not Specified

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE
Contact Name
Not specified
Contact Email
david.waddell@strath.ac.uk
Contact Phone
Not specified

Buyer Location

Locality
GLASGOW
Postcode
G1 1QE
Post Town
Glasgow
Country
Scotland

Major Region (ITL 1)
TLM Scotland
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLM3 West Central Scotland
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLM32 Glasgow City
Delivery Location
TLM82 Glasgow City

Local Authority
Glasgow City
Electoral Ward
Anderston/City/Yorkhill
Westminster Constituency
Glasgow North East

Further Information

Notice Documents

  • https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=OCT398129
    RESuME high-performance computing (HPC) and storage solution - At this time, the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) is exploring the potential to create a suite of intelligent and connected systems in order to illustrate and test the possibilities from a streamlined supply chain network within Scotland. This testbed is called RESuME which will comprise of hardware and software solutions aimed at integrating manufacturing equipment and supporting systems across NMIS specialist facilities (AFRC, LMC and Digital Factory) under the ISA-95 model.

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