GPUs as a service

Summary

This tender relates to a Framework agreement for the delivery of GPU as a Service (GPUaaS) to support the national research cloud service UCloud. The service will provide researchers, universities, and public institutions in Denmark with secure, scalable, and high-performance access to GPU computing resources for data-intensive research, artificial intelligence, and high-performance computing (HPC). With more than 17,000 users today and demand accelerating, UCloud is experiencing unprecedented growth. At the current trajectory, the platform is expected to reach around 50,000 users by 2030. The interactive nature of the service leads to significant fluctuations in infrastructure demand, particularly for GPU nodes. To support this growth and variability, UCloud requires access to an infrastructure pool that can scale rapidly and reliably to very large sizes on demand. The purpose of this tender is to establish a sovereign and secure GPUaaS infrastructure, physically located in Denmark, capable of handling sensitive personal data in compliance with Danish and EU regulations. The solution will be integral part of UCloud and it will provide an extension of the infrastructure currently owned and operated by SDU. The solution must be able to scale flexibly to meet national demand, including support for environments exceeding 1,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs or equivalent. For a more detailed description of the services tendered, please refer to Annex 1 – Specification of requirements, Annex 1.1 – Overview of the solution and Annex 2 – Schedule of prices, as well as any corrections and answers to questions.