MODIFICATION
70 -- Questions and answers submitted by industry.
- Notice Date
- 2/12/2002
- Notice Type
- Modification
- Contracting Office
- 101 Strauss Ave. Indian Head, MD. 20640-5035
- ZIP Code
- 20640-5035
- Solicitation Number
- N0017402Q0074
- Response Due
- 2/28/2002
- Point of Contact
- Carol M. Bolton Contract Specialist 301-744-6789 and/or Renee M. Brown Contracting Officer 301-744-6653
- E-Mail Address
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Email your questions to boltoncm@ih.navy.mil
(boltoncm@ih.navy.mil)
- Description
- The following is a list of various questions submitted by industry. No additional question will be allowed after 15 Feb 2002. The solicitation is expected to be released by 28 Feb 021. 1. Has the technical POC considered the system reliability impact of the "specification" to use dual XP1800 Athlon type nodes is a 1U configuration with respect to the effect of heat? Yes, the impact has been considered. 1U configurations can be designed to run as cool or cooler than 2U. The vendor must provide an appropriately designed configuration. 2. Are the fundamental Partial Differential Equations (PDE's) of the primary application targeted for this system elliptic, parabolic, hyperbolic or mixed driving the requirement for a "High Performance" interconnect? The short answer is yes, applications will be solving a variety of pde's including elliptic, parabolic, hyperboli c. Applications to be run on this system (including, but not limited to): Quantum chemistry for crystals and molecules programs (commercial, university, or in-house developed). Quantum and classical molecular dynamics programs (commercial, university, or in-house developed). Commercial examples: CRYSTAL98, GAUSSIAN98 University & Government examples: molecular dynamics applications developed at the Naval Research Laboratory, the University of Nebraska. Hydrodynamics codes: eulerian, lagrangian, mixed euler-lagrange, adaptive mesh, smooth particle, etc.(government developed). 3. What is the weight in evaluation criteria for the ISO 9002 certification? Does cost have a greater significance? The ISO9002 certification is required for quality assurance in system assembly, integration, and installation. Cost is a factor. 4. Do you have to have a Linux based system? Yes. Many of the applications (in particular, the molecular dynamics applications from Naval Research Laboratory and University of Nebraska)have been and continue to be developed on Linux based systems. 5. Does it have to be a cluster system? Yes. Many of the applications (in particular, the molecular dynamics applications from Naval Research Laboratory and University of Nebraska)have been and continue to be developed on Beowulf type cluster systems. Some require cluster systems to achieve the desired computational performance levels. 6. Does it have to be a Myrinet configuration? Yes. Most of the applications, including quantum chemistry, molecular dynamics, and material modeling, will not only benefit, but require a high performance interconnect such as Myrinet. The Myrinet configuration as specified is also consistent with the requirement for easy future ex pansion capability to increase the number of nodes. 7. Are you in need of any Sun Microsystems equipment? No. We are specifically looking for a Beowulf type cluster system. 8. I was just wondering if this was small biz set aside or if I can participate in the quote? The value of this procurement is considered to be below the small purchase threshold. Therefore, it is automatically set-aside for small busines. 9. Why the IS0 9002 certification? They can certify 9000 with various contractors, HP, Compaq, IBM etc, but they don't know anyone in the industry that will certify the integration of the system causing the ISO to go from 9000 to ISO 9002. The ISO9002 certification is required for quality assurance in system assembly, integration, and installation. The vendor providing this system must maintain an ISO 9002 certification. 10. The description sta tes a 45U. Please verify size. 45U is taller than standard. Standard is 41 or 42U. 45U is available, gives some extra space consistent with our requirement for future expansion capability, and is not much taller than 42U. 11. Please verify number of clusters. Is he correct that you want 1 cluster with 8 nodes/16 processors? or 5 expandable to?? Yes, requirement is for a cluster with 8 computing nodes/16 processors, with capability for easy future expansion to 24 nodes/48 processors.
- Web Link
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http://www.ih.navy.mil/contracts
(http://www.ih.navy.mil/contracts)
- Record
- SN00025822-W 20020214/020212213307 (fbodaily.com)
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