MODIFICATION
70 -- High performance computing cluster
- Notice Date
- 3/19/2010
- Notice Type
- Modification/Amendment
- NAICS
- 423430
— Computer and Computer Peripheral Equipment and Software Merchant Wholesalers
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B129, Mail Stop 1640, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899-1640
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1640
- Solicitation Number
- SB1341-10-RQ-0210
- Archive Date
- 4/3/2010
- Point of Contact
- Divya Soni, Phone: 3019756394
- E-Mail Address
-
divya.soni@nist.gov
(divya.soni@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The purpose of this amendment is to provide responses posed by potential offerors. The following questions were posed, along with their responses. Question: Are you also requesting the infiniband switch or is this cluster being plugged into a switch and you require the cabling to plug it into an existing switch. Response: The Infiniband switching fabric is required for within-cluster communication. The specification calls for the cluster blades to have standard 1 GB Ethernet connectivity as well. NIST will provide any necessary 1 GB switches. NIST will handle the integration of the cluster into the surrounding infrastructure. Question: What processor speed do you want in the dual quad core processors? Will any be acceptable as long as they have two Xeons? Response: Any speed as long as we get eight cores per blade. Since power consumption is a concern, it may even be better to run the slower clock rate. More blades at 2.26 GHz will be considered better than fewer blades at 2.66 GHz or 2.93 GHz. Question: How did you want the 24GB RAM configured? 12x2 GB, or 6x4GB? Apple branded RAM only or third party OK? Response: Quality third party RAM is perfectly acceptable. Bear in mind that you will be warranting the cluster, so please choose carefully from sources known to be reliable. Also, the 12x2 GB will be perfectly acceptable. Again, more blades with 12x2 GB will be considered better than fewer with 6x4 GB. Question: You want 160GB SSD HD, Apple sells 128 GB SSD for this model, is that acceptable or do you want a non-apple part? Response: The Apple part is perfectly acceptable. Quality third party SSDs are also acceptable. We will consider the performance specifications of the SSD with a minimum of 128 GB storage in regards to random I/O, and rewrite lifetime and price in evaluating the proposals. Question: Apple doesn't carry the 40-Gigabit Infiniband HCA Adapter Card so please do let us know what exactly we have to quote and configure. Response: The 40-Gigabit Infiniband HCA Adapter Card does not have to be an Apple product. Only the blades must be Apple products.
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