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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF MAY 22, 2003 FBO #0539
SOURCES SOUGHT

D -- Open Source Software Development Acceleration (OSSODA)

Notice Date

5/20/2003
 

Notice Type

Sources Sought
 

Contracting Office

Department of Energy, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (DOE Contractor), LLNL Procurement & Materiel, 7000 East Avenue L-650, Livermore, CA, 94550
 

ZIP Code

94550
 

Solicitation Number

Reference-Number-OSSODA-03-01
 

Response Due

7/1/2003
 

Archive Date

7/16/2003
 

Point of Contact

Len Haynes, Procument Group Leader, Phone 925-423-1558, Fax 925-423-8019,
 

E-Mail Address

haynes2@llnl.gov
 

Description

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Tri-Laboratory community (LLNL, Sandia, LANL, and DOE Office of Science), is seeking sources to gauge the interest of industry and the open source development community in pursuing open source development efforts aimed at needs of the High Performance Technical Computing community in general and the NNSA Advanced Simulation and Computing (generally known as ASCI) Program in particular. We intend to stimulate development in specific high performance computing areas. In addition, we request information from the industry and open source development communities on efforts outside of our predefined areas that may be of mutual interest. Review the OSSODA Request for Information (RFI) at http://www.llnl.gov/asci/pathforward_trilab/rfi_rfp.html for further information. Inquires or other responses may be submitted via email to Gary Ward at ward31@llnl.gov The open source development methodology has yielded significant enhancements to the state-of-the-art in operating systems (c.f., Linux OS) and tools (c.f., Apache). Multiple accretions of open software mass have resulted in profitable enterprises that combine these tools into single offerings with support. In addition, there exist many efforts to build clustering tools (c.f., LLNL Chaos, LANL Clustermatic, Sandia CPLANT, NPACI Rocks, OSCAR, and others) that extend the desktop environment to medium and high-performance computing. The NNSA Tri-Laboratory community has been participating in open source development efforts. Prior to the advent of open source community development methodologies, the Tri-Laboratory community made significant contributions to computer science via public domain release of operating systems, code development tool chains, and applications. The NNSA Tri-Laboratory community recognizes that open source software is not "free." The cost structure is just different. This concept is described in more detail in the RFI. In addition, it recognizes that to be a full member of the open source development communities, financial and effort contributions are required.
 

Place of Performance

Address: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, CA

Zip Code: 94550

Country: USA
 

Record

SN00328595-W 20030522/030520214342 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

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