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70 -- COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT NOTICE (CAN) SOL CAN-21425/041 POC Theresa Kerrigan, Contract Specialist (301) 286-3596. Myron L. Kemerer, Contracting Officer (301) 286-7244. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) intends to release a Cooperative Agreement Notice (CAN-21425/041) seeking proposals for a joint program of research between the government and industry to ensure the continued leadership and competitiveness of the United States in high performance computing in support of the goals of the High Performance Computing and Communications Program (HPCCP). This research program aims to address Grand Challenge problems in the Earth and Space Sciences (ESS) on high performance computing architectures. In order to meet this objective, this CAN will solicit proposals for (1) an advanced scalable parallel computing system testbed capable of supporting Grand Challenge problem development, including system software and applications code optimization support, and (2) teams of Investigators to successfully implement ESS codes on the proposed system at required performance levels. Depending upon the responses to this CAN, NASA may, at its sole discretion, enter into cooperative agreements with one or more computing system proposers, or decide not to select any proposal to fund. NASA anticipates entering into cooperative agreements with 6-8 Investigator proposals. As a result of this cooperative agreement, NASA envisions one or more prototypical HPC systems residing at GSFC for a period of three years to provide an opportunity for dynamic feedback among HPC systems and applications designers, developers, and users. Payments under this CAN for both the testbed(s) and Investigators shall be based on successful completion of predetermined milestones. Part of the evaluation of proposed HPC systems shall include performance results of a subset of the ESS Parallel Benchmark suite. These benchmarks, which are a set of testcase kernels and codes representative of the ESS problem domain, will be available after February 1, 1995 via anonymous ftp in /pub/HPCC/ESS/testcases on farside.gsfc.nasa.gov. The directory shall be continuously updated as information and benchmarks become available. Participation in this program is open to all categories of organizations including industry, educational institutions, and non-profit organizations. Government agencies other than NASA, Federal labs and other Government-sponsored organizations are invited to participate; however, NASA expects that those groups will be funded internally. For more information or to receive a copy of this CAN, please contact Theresa Kerrigan, NASA/GSFC, Code 243, Greenbelt Md, 20771. Phone: (301) 286-3596, FAX: (301) 286-0247, Internet: tkerrigan@ccmail.gsfc.nasa.gov. No collect calls accepted. (0013)

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