Procurement of a High Performance Computing Facility

Descriptions

The purpose of this ITT is to procure a High-Performance Computing Facility (HPCF) for the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).

ECMWF acquired its existing high-performance computing resources under an agreement that is scheduled to expire at the end of October 2027. The final configuration delivered under this agreement comprises four Eviden BullSequana XH2000 systems, each with 1920 application nodes based around two socket 64 core AMD Rome processors, about 450 further nodes for pre/post-processing and login services, as well as 10 Lustre filesystems. ECMWF has an option for an extension of the current contract on a monthly or quarterly basis, which can be used to provide flexibility in the start of the operational service period for the replacement HPCF being procured as part of this ITT.

ECMWF’s intention is to procure the new HPCF by means of a service contract that includes the initial provision of the service, together with full support and other items such as software licences and upgrades, hardware and software maintenance, training and migration assistance as well as options to extend the service in time with additional on-site and/or off-premise services. The new HPCF is intended to provide a service for a period of five years.

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