SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION & SUPPORT SERVICES FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (HPC) SYSTEM

Descriptions

Swansea University's School of medicine currently use an IBM high performance, low latency switching interconnect (IBM designation ‘Federation’) between all nodes to allow the very high speed transfer of data between processors in physically separate nodes. The system also has an IBM Storage Area Network (SAN) that provides 9.5 TB’s of RAID 5 useable storage, which is accessible by every node within the cluster. Finally, the system is complemented with the use of an IBM Automated Storage Tape Library unit to allow the backup and archive of user data to magnetic tape media, which is managed using IBM’s Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) product.The University now has a requirement to appoint an appropriate company, with suitably qualified and experienced staff, to provide flexible and expert system administration and technical support services for the Blue C HPC on behalf of the School of Medicine.