Procurement of a High Performance Computing Tender - 122248960

Procurement Summary

Country: Italy

Summary: Procurement of a High Performance Computing Facility (Hpcf)

Deadline: 22 Aug 2025

Posting Date: 08 Jul 2025

Other Information

Notice Type: Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 122248960

Document Ref. No.: 442708-2025

Competition: ICB

Financier: Self Financed

Purchaser Ownership: Public

Tender Value: Refer Document

CPV Classification

30211100 - Super computer

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Tender Details

ECMWF-s existing high performance computing resources were acquired under an agreement that is scheduled to expire at the end of October 2027. The final configuration delivered under this agreement comprises four Atos BullSequana XH2000 systems each with 1920 application nodes based around two socket 64 core AMD Rome processors. More information on ECMWF's current HPCF can be found here: https://www.ecmwf.int/en/computing/our-facilities/supercomputer-facility . Two workloads drive the HPCF requirement: (i) Physics based modelling and data assimilation based around MPI and OpenMP parallel applications and (ii) Data-driven modelling using the Anemoi framework based around Python and PyTorch; the latter with AI/ML hardware acceleration support. 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 the future in time with additional on-site or off-premise services. The new HPCF will provide the production service to the end of the contract period in 2032. As an operational weather forecasting centre, ECMWF has obligations to provide meteorological products to a tight schedule and strives to be as environmentally responsible as possible. The highly-available production service for machine learning inference, physics...
Document Type: Prior Information Notice

Reference Number: ECMWF/ITT/2025/380

Contract Type: supplies

Authority Type: int-org

Doc Title: Procurement of a High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF)

Dispatch Date: 2025-07-07

Publish Date: 2025-07-08

Submission Date: 2025-08-22

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