The U. S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh PA issued this synopsis/solicitation for 32 Nodes Dual Process Beowulf cluster with the latest version of Red Hat (Linux) operation system and high speed Myrinet communication system between nodes. The solicitation number is DE-RQ26-02NT00729. This announcement constitutes both notification and solicitation. All in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation, Part 12, Commercial Item Acquisition. Offers shall include descriptive literature containing sufficient technical literature to establish a bonafide capacity of meeting the RFQ requirements. Offers must be received by close of business September 16, 2002 Any interested party may contact Mr. Thomas J. Gruber. ANY AND ALL INQUIRES ARE TO BE SUBMITTED BY FAX (412.386.6137) or E-MIAL ([email protected]). Description of product: 1)Head Node 4U ATX Chassis with 300 Watt UL Approved Power Supply Tyan Dual Athlon 760MPX Chipset Motherboard with (2) 64 bit / 66 Mhz PCI Slot (2) AMD 2000XP MP Processers with heat sink and fans 3.072 GB PC2100 ECC Registered DDR Memory (3) 80 GB EIDE 7200 RPM Hard Drive (RAID LEVEL 5) Escalade 7450 RAID Controller 3.5" Floppy Drive 40x/24x/10x Rewritable Hard Drive (2) 10/100 Network Adapter Myrinet Network Adapters (M3F-PCI64B-2) Geforce 2MX 64MB AGP Video Adapter 104 Key Keyboard Logitech 3 Button Mouse Sliding Rails Linux Latest Version configured for Beowulf cluster including installation of MPI and/or PVM Qty of Head Node: 1 2) Slave Node 2U Rackmount ATX Chassis with 300 Watt UL Approved Power Supply 64 bit / 66 Mhz Riser Card Tyan Dual Athlon 760MPX Chipset Motherboard with (2) 64 bit / 66 Mhz PCI Slot (2) AMD 2000XP MP Processer with heat sink and fans 3.072 GB PC2100 ECC Registered DDR Memory 3.5" Floppy Drive 80GB EIDE Ultra DMA 100 7200 RPM Hard Drive 10/100 Network Adapter Myrinet Network Adapters (M3F-PCI64B-2) SVGA Video Adapter Sliding Rails Linux Latest Version configured for Beowulf cluster Qty of Slave Node: 31 3) Custom installation of Beowulf cluster including setup of OS, message passing software (MPI CH), ATLAS Open Source Libraries, LAPACK Libraries, BLAS Libraries, FFW, VLISP, GNU Compilers, Custom OS Kernel, and Ganglia cluster monitoring utility and Graphical User Interface tools. Security patches including Preconfigured Port Mapper, IP Chains and Security Errada Upates (Redhat) are included for protection. PBS Batch Scheduler 4) 44U Open 4 Post Rackmount Housing Qty: 2 5) Netgear FS750 10/100 Network Switch Qty: 1 6) Myrinet 2000 M3F-E32 Switch Chassis Qty: 1 7) Myrinet 2000 M3F-SW16-8F Line Card Qty: 4 8) CAT 5 E Network Cable Qty: 33 9) Myrinet 2000 3 Meter Cable Qty: 32 10) 20 Amp Power Strips 6 Outlets Qty: 6 11) Belkin 16 Port KVM with All in One Cables Qty: 1 12) Belkin Cascade Cable Qty: 1 13) PGroup PGI Workstation 4.0 installed w/ media & docs Qty: 1 14) PGroup PGI Workstation Subscription 1 year Qty: 1 Evaluation Creteria: 1. Previous experience in building, and installing similar systems and providing corresponding support. 2. Warranty: price should include two years full parts and labor warranty, component manufacturers should offer a three year extended warranty. 3. Ability to deliver the hardware in a reasonable time (30 days or less); system should be fully built, integrated and tested. All software and hardware must be fully installed and tested. Full system documentation must be provided. 4. price.

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