MODIFICATION
70 -- Intel Knights Landing Cluster - Amendment 2 - Amendment 1
- Notice Date
- 3/29/2017
- Notice Type
- Modification/Amendment
- NAICS
- 334111
— Electronic Computer Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B130, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899-1410, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1410
- Solicitation Number
- SB1341-17-RQ-0277
- Archive Date
- 4/15/2017
- Point of Contact
- Adam C. Powell, Phone: 301-975-2166
- E-Mail Address
-
adam.powell@nist.gov
(adam.powell@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- Amendment 001 Amendment 001 SB1341-17-RQ-0277 - Attachment I - Solicitation **Amendment 001 The purpose of this amendment is as follows: 1.) To respond to questions posed by potential Offerors; 2.) Amend Attachment I - Combined Synopsis/Solicitation. The amendment details may be found within the attachment titled, "SB1341-17-RQ-0277 Amendment 001" END TEXT** THIS IS A COMBINED SYNOPSIS/SOLICITATION FOR COMMERCIAL ITEMS PREPARED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FORMAT IN FAR SUBPART 12.6-STREAMLINED PROCEDURES FOR EVALUATION AND SOLICITATION FOR COMMERCIAL ITEMS-AS SUPPLEMENTED WITH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION INCLUDED IN THIS NOTICE. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CONSTITUTES THE ONLY SOLICITATION; QUOTATIONS ARE BEING REQUESTED, AND A WRITTEN SOLICITATION DOCUMENT WILL NOT BE ISSUED. This solicitation is a Request for Quotation (RFQ). The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 05-95. The associated North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement is 334111 - Electronic Computer Manufacturing. The small business size standard is 1,250 employees. This acquisition is set aside for small businesses. Simplified acquisition procedures will be utilized. Background Information A number of NIST research projects are involved with the development of algorithms and software for applications which will eventually be deployed on advanced architectures containing NVIDIA graphical processing units or Intel Knights Landing processors. Concurrently, there are NIST activities which are exploring new approaches to achieving maximal performance from these new architectures by developing libraries and frameworks that exploit massive concurrency, memory hierarchies, and task parallelism to achieve maximal performance. In this context, it is important to understand that the future for computational science is clear: older, single core, high-clock speed processors are now a thing of the past; additional computational capacity is being delivered by increasing on-chip parallelism (64 x86 cores for the Intel KNL, 3584 CUDA cores for the NVIDIA Tesla P100) as well as new memory hierarchies and interconnect technologies. As such, it is essential to embrace these new paradigms and learn how to effectively take advantage of this parallelism for the benefit of scientific research. Codes today need to be highly parallel for both small and large scale parallel applications and will therefore combine several parallelization approaches such as cluster, multicore, and accelerator computing; they will use parallel programming technologies such as MPI for message passing, OpenMP or threads for shared memory, and CUDA, OpenCL, or OpenACC for accelerators or GPUs. Thorough testing is needed so that the codes function efficiently on highly parallel or large scale machines before they are distributed for widespread use. In most instances, these development and testing efforts require a dedicated, modestly parallel computational platform to be certain most issues of reliability and performance have been addressed. The system needs to be built using the specialized hardware that will be deployed in the advanced, larger scale machines. NIST requires a modest, Intel Knights Landing cluster (KNLc) to develop and test NIST software on this specialized hardware and to explore enhanced performance methodologies for future deployment. In addition, the cluster will allow NIST to run a number of scientific applications which are of interest within NIST's Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) as well as other laboratories such as NIST's Material Measurement Laboratory (MML) and Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML), providing them with useful information to their respective missions. Reference attachments for complete solicitation.
- Web Link
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FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOC/NIST/AcAsD/SB1341-17-RQ-0277/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899, United States
- Zip Code: 20899
- Zip Code: 20899
- Record
- SN04452024-W 20170331/170329235348-978d7e527cb4e0e1a928b37d9621f0e5 (fbodaily.com)
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