UK SBS PR17148 CEPH Storage Servers for Physics Data Processing at the RAL Tier-1
UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITEDEstimated Value
£716,000 – £1,057,000
Deadline
6 December 2017
Published
15 June 2018
Type
goods
Overview
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 a large installation of PC Linux storage servers hosting approximately 15PB of physics data, using mainly SATA disks arrays.
STFC seeked an affordable commodity storage solution to augment the existing storage provision and meet the needs of the GridPP project. A detailed specification is provided below.
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UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITEDKey Dates
Published
15 June 2018
Submission deadline
6 December 2017
Renewal expected50% confident
July 2020
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