Knolls Atomic Power Lab., P.O. Box 1072, Schenectady, N.Y. 12301-1072

70 -- SCIENTIFIC SUPERCOMPUTERS SOL RFP Q00002875. DUE 092995. Contact D.R. Tucker - Contract Administrator (518) 395-6252, FAX (518) 395-6627. The Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, located in Schenectady, New York, plans to procure (for no more than five million dollars) a supercomputing system for delivery in fiscal year 1996. An option for a second identical system will be included for delivery in fiscal year 1996 to the Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory, located in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania. Options will also be included (for no more than four million dollars each) to expand or replace the fiscal year 1996 systems in fiscal year 1997. Additional options will be included for incremental upgrades to the system including memory expansion, increased computational performance, and increased input/output (I/O) capacity and performance. Requirements of the fiscal year 1996 systems include (1) a minimum demonstrated computational capacity of a CRAY C916/16 as measured by a set of `as-is' design-application based benchmarks; (2) 8 gigabytes of real memory, supporting 64-bit real, integer and logical data, and C compilers; (4) support for either IEEE Std. 754 arithmetic and representation, or the Cray Research representation of floating point numbers; (5) support for message-passing parallel applications implemented with PVM (a network version of Parallel Virtual Machine Release 3.3.4 or later); (6) a Unix operating system, supporting multiple users and jobs, which functionally meets the DOE Security requirements of the Laboratories; and (7) hardware and software support for I/O with network capabilities of NFS and TCP/IP over HiPPI, and a minimum disk storage capacity of 150 gigabytes. The system shall include all software and software licenses to meet the above functionality. Sellers shall benchmark the initial system by December, 1995, deliver two initial systems in mid-1996. Final systems shall satisfy all of the requirements of the initial systems, and have at least twice the minimum performance required of the initial systems, at least 300 gigabytes disk storage, and at least 16 gigabytes of real memory. The system will be selected from Proposals primarily on the basis of cost/performance, where the cost is the total system life cycle cost including hardware and software, power, implementation, and maintenance costs. Performance will be measured by benchmarks for a large set of `as-is' batch application programs. Benchmark performance shall be demonstrated on a system which is architecturally identical, in size and configuration, to the proposed system. The benchmarks contain unclassified naval nuclear propulsion information which is subject to export control and is not releasable to foreign nationals. Benchmarks will be made available for two limited time periods; initially to provide information necessary to configure proposed systems, and subsequently to measure the performance of proposed systems. They must be handled under the observation and control of Laboratory representatives, as detailed in the technical specification. Sellers will be required to ensure that other users cannot access the machine(s) during the benchmark periods, and to clear the machine(s) upon benchmark completion. Benchmarks must be performed on a machine which is located within the United States and is operated by U.S. citizens. Installation and maintenance of the delivered system must be performed by U.S. citizens holding a Department of Energy (DOE) security clearance. Pursuant to DOE Acquisition Regulation 904.70, such personnel must be employed by a company that DOE determines is not owned, controlled, or influenced by foreign individuals, governments, or organizations to a degree that may pose an undue risk to the common defense and security. Sellers should be prepared to provide informative presentations and demonstrations of technology that will meet the requirements. Interested sellers shall submit a written request for the Request for Proposal, including six copies of substantive descriptions of their products, to be postmarked or faxed no later than fifteen working days after the date of this announcement. (146)

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