Centerprise beats global competition for big Swiss deal
Nuclear research facility CERN was on the hunt for datacentre equipment
Centerprise has won a big deal with Swiss nuclear research facility CERN, beating off competition from around the world.
The UK firm has snapped up a £1.7m contract with the European Research Facility for Nuclear Science, known as CERN, and best known for being the home of the Large Hadron Collider.
The centre, based in Meyrin, Switzerland, released a global tender for the procurement of two energy efficient rack-mountable systems for its datacentre.
"The tender required bidders from across the world to provide a solution for the delivery of the required CPU Servers for physics data processing and acquisition and control systems, all according to CERN's predefined specifications and strict delivery requirements," said Centerprise.
"Another prerequisite of the tender was for bidders to supply test log files for power, storage and system performance, with successful bidders also providing a sample system for evaluation, in order to ensure the results matched those stated on the tender response.
"In partnership with E4 Computer Engineering, Centerprise worked and tested a number of relevant solutions in order to ascertain the best fit for CERN's vigorous requirements. Upon completion of testing and pricing, Centerprise presented two compliant solutions which met CERN's criteria and offered the best results from a performance-price perspective."
Centerprise claims its credentials were "undisputed" thanks to its reputation and strong vendor ties, and as a result was awarded the deal to supply a total of 135 servers, which all had to be built, tested and shipped within eight weeks of the purchase order.
Centerprise HPC system integrator account manager, Ramsey Razzak, said: "This is a prestigious contract win for Centerprise that validates our ability to build, configure and deliver computational equipment to highly educated customers with specific configurations and strict deadlines."