D -- COMPUTER PROGRAMMING SUPPORT

Notice Date

July 9, 2001

Contracting Office

Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition and Logistics Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B129, Mail Stop 3571, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899-3571

ZIP Code

20899-3571

Solicitation Number

1-841-6124

Response Due

July 21, 2001

Point of Contact

Joseph Widdup, Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 975-6324, Fax (301) 975-8884, Email joseph.widdup@nist.gov

Description

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), intends to enter into a sole source purchase order using FAR Part 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures with the Office of Research, University of Notre Dame, 511 Main Building, Notre Dame, IN. Notre Dame has a highly qualified Ph.D. physicist with extensive experience programming parallel computers. The contractor will be required to develop a suite of computer codes, running on the NIST Beowulf System, that simulate the dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensed atoms under conditions required in applications of quantum logic processing. The resulting codes must be able to: reproduce the static structure of a one or two component Bose-Einstein condensate confined in a magnetic or optical dipole trap; simulate the loading of condensate atoms in micromagnetic trap or optical lattice; describe quantum entanglement operations involving atoms in microtraps; describe quantum decoherence phenomena that limit the fidelity and speed of quantum logic operations. The codes will be implemented on the NIST Beowulf System which is a 128-processor cluster running under the Linux operation system. The contractor must provide codes that can run on any number of processors of this system, must provide benchmark measurements of the dependence of execution time upon the number of active processors, and must demonstrate consistent progress in optimizing the code to take advantage of the parallel processing features of the Beowulf system. The Government anticipates the award of a labor-hour purchase order. The estimated award date of this purchase order is July 21, 2001. The required period of performance is from the effective date of purchase order award (FOB Destination ? Gaithersburg, MD) through 1 year. Notre Dame is the only known source that can provide this service. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotations. All information received by the Government by July 21, 2001, will be considered. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. If you have any questions regarding this announcement, please contact Michael Robinson on 301-975-4851, email: michael.robinson@nist.gov. Interested organizations may submit information about their capabilities and qualifications to perform the effort in writing to the identified point of contact not later than 3:00 p.m. local time on July 21, 2001. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed effort based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice.=20

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