Uninett Sigma2 AS is responsible for the national infrastructure for calculation science in Norway and offers services for supercomputing and storing research data. This procurement is for a Linux cluster with a network and global file system of high performance. The system must handle large parallel jobs.

The main aim of the chosen system is to achieve as much research production as possible above the total cost (TCO).

The procurement consists of 3 different classes of server modes, a high-performance network and a high-performance global parallel file system. In addition the procurement includes a maintenance contract for 4 years.

The Contracting Authority wants to award the contract to one tenderer for the entire procurement.