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The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is one of the seven UK Research Councils. The UK government announced as part of the 2011 Budget that money was to be made available to UK campuses to deliver next generation science and innovation. As part of this implementation STFC will set up an International Centre of Excellence for Computational Science and Engineering (ICE-CSE). Description of system and collaboration. STFC is looking to procure a collaboration with a vendor of HPC Systems which has research and development capability on the roadmap to exascale computing. As part of this collaboration we will procure: — A base HPC system: which consist of a minimum of 2048 x86 cores for the purpose of applying current codes to industrial relevant applications, — An advance HPC system: capability computing platform of at least 225Tflops/s with the potential of scaling a single job across the whole system, — Access to future technologies on the roadmap of exascale computing during the lifetime of the collaboration, — A partnership in a collaboration to build software relevant to industry and commercial applications that scales across multi core architectures and delivers step changes in the use of HPC and to develop a business plan for a possible extension of the term and a variation to the contract to widen the scope of the collaboration (to continue to advance STFCs ability to do so, in particular by adding additional hardware and/or software to maintain STFCs cutting edge HPC capability, and to advance the acceptance and use of HPC.). STFC is looking for proposals that meet these criteria and is expecting to make an initial investment of 6 000 000 GBP including VAT (amended to 10 000 000 GBP within corrigendum issued). The initial collaboration will cover a three year period with the intent of delivery, commissioning and payment by the end of March 2012. It is possible that the collaboration may be extended for a further 2 years at STFCs option to carry out the business plan referred to above which is developed during the initial term. Any contract for such further collaboration would in any event be conditional upon a commitment to STFC of further government or other external funding (including capital allocation) for the collaboration set out in the business plan of up to 5 000 000 GBP per annum becoming available during the initial term, particularly to fund the purchase of additional hardware and/or software. (Such further collaboration may involve STFC contracting directly with some or all of the successful bidders sub-contractors (if any) under the initial collaboration, in addition to the successful bidder.).

HPC system collaboration for the International Centre of Excellence in Computational Science and Engineering (ICE-CSE) Tender1.

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