FME CenSES Infrastructure

NTNU

NTNU's HPC-cluster, ‘Solstorm’ in Lab for economy and optimisation. The primary aim of this tender is to add new capacity. The system is set up to handle solution algorithms for large scale optimisation models based on distributed optimisation. The models are broken down into problems that can be solved in a single core and the master node co-ordinates the work. IO between the nodes consisted primarily of 2 types of traffic:
— Communication from the primary node to other nodes (small quantities of data, asynchronous communication both ways).
— batches of large quantities of data that are transferred from a central data store to data nodes, or the reverse. A typical data stream will be to copy files of 4 GB from a central store to each compute node, or similar files in the reverse.
Estimated value of the contract: 3 000 000 NOK including VAT.
The expansion of ‘Solstorm’ shall primarily address the following challenges:
— Need for more computing capacity:
• Generic data nodes;
• High performance data nodes.
— Alternative: End of life (end lifetime) data nodes:
• If the Tenderer has a trade-in program that gives credits or cash-back incentives when new equipment is procured;
• Tenderer shall offer the price for fourth year guarantee in the tender offer (Annex 7) as an alternative that the buyer can purchase at the tendered price.
For more detailed information about the scope and content of the purchasing, refer to the tender, Annex 1-3..

Frist
Fristen for mottak av tilbud var 2015-11-09. Anskaffelsen ble publisert 2015-09-30.

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