We have a requirement to expand the cluster by adding another 12 compute nodes which will be connected using IB.
T20/0046 HPC expansion
University of Northumbria at Newcastle
North East
£100,000 to £500,000
BIP590332702
29 April 2021
17 May 2021
1pm
24 May 2021
24 May 2024
Supply contract
Open procedure
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
No
Yes
Northumbria University has an HPC cluster (Oswald) which utilises Intel Omniopath (OPA) as the node interconnection fabric. As Intel has stopped future development of OPA we want to migrate to use Mellanox Infiniband node interconnection fabric.
We have a requirement to expand the cluster by adding another 12 compute nodes which will be connected using IB. We must keep the current cluster intact and operational, so we need to add an OPA-IB Bridge (LNET-Router) and then migrate our current nodes over to IB over time.
We also require another 120TB of storage as a SAS connected JBOD.
Items required
•12 Nodes, ~120TB storage, Infiniband Switch, OPA-IB Bridge(Lnet Router)
•All hardware to be SuperMicro based, with the exception of the Infiband switch.
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Angelique Borsboom
Sutherland building
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE2 1XE
UK
07429334777