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70 -- PARALLEL MIMD (MULTIPLE INSTRUCTION, MULTIPLE DATA) COMPUTING SYSTEM Sol 351409. Contact, Tom McGarry, 509/376-7672, Sr. Contract Specialist. PARALLEL HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYSTEM SOL 351409 POC. Parallel MIMD (Multiple Instruction, Multiple Data) computing system with at least 100 processors. Each processor must have an operating speed of 100 MFLOPS, or greater, on required single processor LFK benchmarks and an aggregate, peak speed of approximately 100 GFLOPS, or greater, for multiple copies of the benchmark. Each processor shall allow an application to access at least 56 MB of local random access memory and the total applications memory available shall be at least 20 GB. It is highly desirable that the system be configured so that up to 25% of the processors have at least 240 MB of local user memory, increased floating point performance, and interprocessor bandwidth. The system must support low latency, high bandwidth message-passing for parallel applications. Support for the shared-memory programming model is highly desirable. The system must provide at least 400 GB of random access secondary storage and provide resources for backup/restore of the disks to/from removable storage. At least 100 GB of the disk storage must be available as a parallel file system, having at least 300 MBps of benchmark aggregate bandwidth. The system must provide connectivity interfaces to external systems via FDDI and HIPPI. Options for higher performance ATM or Fiber channel are desirable. The system shall support a complete Unix-compatible, multi-user program development and execution environment, process-to-process socket communication, file sharing via AFS or DFS, Fortran, C, and Assembler language compilers, function libraries, and system management utilities. Full system support is required, including installation, training, documentation, diagnostics, on-site maintenance, and telephone support. Benchmarks are anticipated to determine the proposed system's effectiveness relative to buyer's requirements. Delivery is required to Richland, WA and may be in two phases, although (at least 25% of the completed system) the first Phase must be delivered not later than June, 1996. Phase II and the completed system is scheduled for delivery by March, 1997. A Solicitation for Planning and Comment (SPC) is planned for release February 20, 1995 to be followed by a pre-solicitation conference tentatively planned for March 1, 1995, at Richland, WA. The Request for Proposal (RFP) is tentatively planned for release in April, 1995. Requests for the SPC and RFP must be in writing. Contact Tom McGarry, 509-376-7672, Sr Contract Specialist, MSIN: K6-02, Battelle, Pacific Northwest Laboratory, 3190 George Washington Way, Richland, WA 99352. Deadelines for submission of proposals will be contained within the RFP. (023)

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