Prior information notice
According to this notice the expected publication date of the contract documents (note that this could change) is
2026-10-20
ESS will need access to a large hardware and services catalogue for the supply of hardware and solutions.
The server hardware will include industrial PCs, virtualization servers (some with specialized use cases requiring a need for GPU) that will run Linux virtualisation servers (oVirt, Proxmox, Openstack), storage servers with HDDs, SSDs or both that will be used for distributed and parallel storage systems (Ceph and Lustre).