The current storage appliances are nearing end of life and there is a requirement for a new storage system that meets ICBF’s needs. At present, there are eight compute nodes in the cluster, consisting of • 2 Dell R930 servers (Quad Intel Xeon E7-8893v3 with 6TB) • 2 Dell R940’s (Quad Intel Xeon Gold 6242 with 3TB RAM) • 4 Dell R960’s (Quad Intel Xeon Platinum 8444H with 3TB RAM) Going forward, there is a requirement to be able to run production, development and test jobs with the dev/test jobs having minimal impact on production. Rather than having the eight nodes working together in one cluster, the intention is to set up three independent environments, development, test and production and allocate certain nodes to each of these environments. For example, in the diagram below, nodes 1 to 3 run production jobs, nodes 4 and 5 run test jobs and nodes 6 to 8 run development jobs. A requirement of the new solution is that storage can be allocated independently to each environment. We need to ensure that any jobs that run on the development and test partitions have a minimal impact on production. The workload requires a minimum Input-Output per second (IOPS) of 50,000 for the production workloads. The IOPS required for the development and test environments do not necessarily need to be at this level, a minimum requirement of 30,000. There is a requirement for a minimum of 300TB of usable storage, to be split between production, development and test. All this 300TB must be available to the end user. Please see diagram in Tender Document
Deadline
The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2024-07-15.
The procurement was published on 2024-06-14.
Contract notice (2024-06-14) Object Scope of the procurement
Title: A Storage Solution for a High-Performance Computing (HPC) cluster
Reference number: HPC Cluster
Short description:
“The current storage appliances are nearing end of life and there is a requirement for a new storage system that meets ICBF’s needs. At present, there are...”
Short description
The current storage appliances are nearing end of life and there is a requirement for a new storage system that meets ICBF’s needs. At present, there are eight compute nodes in the cluster, consisting of • 2 Dell R930 servers (Quad Intel Xeon E7-8893v3 with 6TB) • 2 Dell R940’s (Quad Intel Xeon Gold 6242 with 3TB RAM) • 4 Dell R960’s (Quad Intel Xeon Platinum 8444H with 3TB RAM) Going forward, there is a requirement to be able to run production, development and test jobs with the dev/test jobs having minimal impact on production. Rather than having the eight nodes working together in one cluster, the intention is to set up three independent environments, development, test and production and allocate certain nodes to each of these environments. For example, in the diagram below, nodes 1 to 3 run production jobs, nodes 4 and 5 run test jobs and nodes 6 to 8 run development jobs. A requirement of the new solution is that storage can be allocated independently to each environment. We need to ensure that any jobs that run on the development and test partitions have a minimal impact on production. The workload requires a minimum Input-Output per second (IOPS) of 50,000 for the production workloads. The IOPS required for the development and test environments do not necessarily need to be at this level, a minimum requirement of 30,000. There is a requirement for a minimum of 300TB of usable storage, to be split between production, development and test. All this 300TB must be available to the end user. Please see diagram in Tender Document
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Type of contract: Supplies
Products/services: Computer storage units📦
Estimated value excluding VAT: 500 000 EUR 💰
Information about lots
Tenders may be submitted for maximum number of lots: 0
Description
Description of the procurement:
“The current storage appliances are nearing end of life and there is a requirement for a new storage system that meets ICBF’s needs. At present, there are...”
Description of the procurement
The current storage appliances are nearing end of life and there is a requirement for a new storage system that meets ICBF’s needs. At present, there are eight compute nodes in the cluster, consisting of • 2 Dell R930 servers (Quad Intel Xeon E7-8893v3 with 6TB) • 2 Dell R940’s (Quad Intel Xeon Gold 6242 with 3TB RAM) • 4 Dell R960’s (Quad Intel Xeon Platinum 8444H with 3TB RAM) Going forward, there is a requirement to be able to run production, development and test jobs with the dev/test jobs having minimal impact on production. Rather than having the eight nodes working together in one cluster, the intention is to set up three independent environments, development, test and production and allocate certain nodes to each of these environments. For example, in the diagram below, nodes 1 to 3 run production jobs, nodes 4 and 5 run test jobs and nodes 6 to 8 run development jobs. A requirement of the new solution is that storage can be allocated independently to each environment. We need to ensure that any jobs that run on the development and test partitions have a minimal impact on production. The workload requires a minimum Input-Output per second (IOPS) of 50,000 for the production workloads. The IOPS required for the development and test environments do not necessarily need to be at this level, a minimum requirement of 30,000. There is a requirement for a minimum of 300TB of usable storage, to be split between production, development and test. All this 300TB must be available to the end user. Please see diagram in Tender Document
Procedure Type of procedure
Open procedure ✅ Administrative information
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 2024-07-15 17:00:00 📅
Conditions for opening of tenders: 2024-07-15 17:30:00 📅
Conditions for opening of tenders (place): https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/prepareViewCfTWS.do?resourceId=3784988
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
Complementary information Review body
Name: The High Court of Ireland
National registration number: The High Court of Ireland
Postal address: Four Courts, Inns Quay, Dublin 7
Postal code: D07 WDX8
Postal town: Dublin
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie📧
Phone: +353 1 8886000📞 Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Name: Irish Cattle Breeding Federation
National registration number: 4914R
Postal address: Link Road, Ballincollig, Cork. P31 D452
Postal code: P31 D452
Postal town: Cork
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: mmadden@icbf.com📧
Phone: +353238820222📞 Information about electronic workflows
Electronic invoicing will be accepted
Electronic ordering will be used
Electronic payment will be used
Source: OJS 2024/S 117-358053 (2024-06-14)