42d Contracting Squadron/LGC, 50 Lemay Plaza South, Bldg 804, Maxwell AFB, AL 36112-6334

70 -- HARDWARE/SOFTWARE SOL F01600-97-Q2038 POC Mary Lou Crook, Tel: 334-953-2560 FAX: 334-953-2198 E-MAIL: 42d Contracting Squadron, glmcbride@max1.au.af.mil. The Maxwell Air Force Base Contracting Office is seeking to identify vendors that can provide a RAID Level 7 Storage Superserver. The superserver must provide on-time and shared storage capability to meet the demands of high-performance computing. The superserver must provide connectivity for a minimum of 12 concurrent host connections while maintaining high sustained bandwidths (38/42 Mbps for reads and 28/32 Mbps for writes). It must allow for data sharing between all concurrent host connections. It must provide shared storage services for any host platform which supports the industry-standard, high-speed SCSI and Fiber Channel interfaces. Specifically, it must support SUN, Hewlett-Packard and IBM-compatible PC equipment connectivity, as a minimum. The superserver must provide multi-level mirroring to include RAID 7 mirroring, intra-mirroring facility and cross-mirroring. It must mirror between devices or internally (one device) and mirroring must be done on a logical volume level. The mirroring mustbe done at the controller. It also should provide a striping capability. A repartitioning of storage area capability to allow for reallocation of storage resources, as needed is a mandatory feature. Internal transfers of data must be done via high-speed data and control buses. The superserver must provide "next generation" performance-enhanced implementation based on extensions to open architecture. It must be optimized for high-performance business applications, and performance critical environments, by fully distributing intelligence, memory, parity generation and flow control throughout the array allowing a wide variety of applications. The superserver must provide full RAID reliability and resiliency. It must provide a combination of redundant power and cooling systems, redundant array controllers, independent parity disks, up to four hot-standby drives, an embedded BCC mechanism, non-volatile cache and advanced multi-level mirroring must provide users with fully fault-tolerant storage designed to ensurecontinual data access, in the event of multiple concurrent failures. The superserver must be capable of incremental memory expansion to main and channel memory of up to 1GB minimum. Performance monitoring, setup and diagnostics utilities, and array software must be included as standard, for easy local access for statistics. Centralized local and remote management should be included and be SNMP-based. The superserver should also provide logical volume spanning to support large file sizes and maximum configuration flexibility. On-site installation and integration will be required. Refer to solicitation F01600-97-Q2038. Vendors capable of providing a product with the salient characteristics and mandatory specifications as stated above are invited to submit in writing a substantial statements clearly demonstrating comparable quality of the product offered, substantiated by technical data brochures, hardware/software specifications, pricing and GSA Schedule Contract Number (if applicable). Interested parties mustrespond to this notice within 15 calendars days from the date of this publication. THIS IS A REQUEST FOR PRODUCT INFORMATION ONLY! This is not a request for proposal (RFP). No contract award will be made on the basis of responses received; however, information will be used in assessment of capable sources. The Government does not intend to pay for information received. Requests for copies of a solicitation will not be honored or acknowledge. (0195)

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