University (hereinafter referred to as “the University”) seeks to purchase equipment for the purposes of scalable high performance computing for research (collectively referred to as “the System”). The System will be composed of three Components: computational and storage hardware (referred to as “Computation & Storage”), virtualization software (referred to as “Virtualization”), and networking hardware (referred to as “Networking”). These Components will work together to form the core of the System. This System will be incrementally expanded by over time to grow its capabilities and to allow more usage.