Scientific Processing and Intensive Compute Environment (SPICE)

The subject of this Procurement is the provision of a highly scalable compute and storage environment to meet the growing needs of Met Office scientific research and post HPC model data processing. The solution sought by the Met Office, implies a complete shift in current IT provisioning methodology, with new ways of delivering compute and storage resources to the business. The Met Office recognises the risk that this brings, but anticipates the benefits of innovation outweighs this generating major savings, and al...