HPC Planning & Procurement
Trusted, impartial, expert advice based on practical experience
HPC Acquisition and Service Planning
Our team have helped many organizations around the world to plan for and acquire supercomputers and other HPC systems. With experience based on over 40 relevant projects and around $1bn of customer budgets, our team can provide you with the vital experience and expertise to ensure your HPC procurement delivers the best business value and cost-effective solution to your organization. Our help can span all of the HPC planning and procurement cycle, or just the parts you need help with.
Benchmark design and assessment
NAG can help with:
- Requirements capture and analysis
- Business case
- Stakeholder engagement
- Researching market capability, technology and solutions
- Establishing achievable budget and delivery goals
- Procurement strategy
- RFP/ITT documentation
- Benchmark design and management
- Robust bid scoring mechanisms
- Bid evaluation
- Contract negotiation
- Acceptance testing
- Migration to production user service
We would be delighted to work in a highly collaborative manner with your existing team – where possible, we augment in-house expertise and experience, not replace it. We can add capacity/effort if your team is resource-stretched during the procurement life. Or we can add depth and breadth to the team, perhaps adding expertise in specific areas, or bringing the benefit of our experience across many and diverse HPC projects. NAG has close relationships with all major HPC providers and insight into their technologies, roadmaps, and customer experience. NAG is wholly impartial and independent, so you can trust the advice we give you as being in your best interests.
NAG’s professional HPC technology and procurement specialists can help to substantially de-risk your planning and procurement – giving you greater confidence and delivering the right solution for your organization at the right cost. Contact us.
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