Supercomputer NWP18.

The National Supercomputer Centre at Linköpings universitet will during 2017 procure two High Performance Computing (HPC) Facilities to be installed in 2018, one for general purpose academic compute (AC2018) and one for numerical weather prediction (NWP18). The procurements will be carried out using negotiated procedure. Evaluations will be based on performance over lifetime cost for the systems and the performance will be determined using benchmarks.

This procurement only concerns NWP18.

NWP18 is a procurement of a HPC resource that will be used for joint operational numerical weather prediction in Sweden, Norway, and Finland in MetCoOp (Meteorological Co-operation on Operational NWP). This procurement is funded by Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) and Norwegian Meteorological Institute (MET Norway).

For reasons of redundancy, the computing resource for weather prediction will consist of two separate system installations in two different computer rooms. Both installations will be used together with a computing resource at Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) as a joint computing resource for daily operational numerical weather prediction (NWP) for the common region of the three countries and serve as the main resource for the national weather forecasting services.

The evaluation of tenders will be focused on best throughput performance over the total cost of ownership (TCO) including investment, support and service, power and cooling and other facilitiy costs during four years of life- time. This will be measured using the enclosed benchmarks.

Please find more information about this procurement under:

Note that you will have to sign and submit a license agreement to get access to the benchmarks.

Please find Request for Information (RFI) under https://www.nsc.liu.se/about/procurement/RFI

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