AI Computing Facility
The University of Southampton requires 4 R760xa systems and as many Nvidia L4 GPUs as possible with servers meeting the following specification. There must be a maximum of 8 GPUs per server. • CPU - Minimum of 12 threads per GPU, either Intel or AMD with minimum clock speeds of 2 Ghz normal, 3 Ghz boost • RAM - 10GB per thread • 800GB Minimum Solid State Fault Tolerant storage for OS, RAID 1. • 7.68TB Minimum Read Intensive NVMe storage for local dataset storage • Backpl Classification: Servers.
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Published: 28 April 2025
Source: UK Contracts Finder — AI procurement
Category: Policy
Topics: Regulation
Retrieved: 15 August 2026
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