N66604-16-Q-1461_Minimum_Government_Specification.docx

Solicitation No. N66604-16-Q-1461

COMPUTER CLUSTER MINIMUM CONFIGURATION SPECIFICATIONS

General

- Support for multiple virtualization solutions

- Able to quickly reconfigure system to change the virtualization platform

- Easy interconnection and integration with external computer systems

Enclosure

- Modular system

- Each module has minimum of four computing nodes

- Each enclosure has a 2U form-factor

- Each enclosure is rack-mountable

- Dual redundant power supplies in each enclosure

- Computing nodes are hot-swappable

- Processing and secondary storage in the same enclosure

Processing (Intel Brand Name or Equal)

- Intel Xeon microprocessors based on Intel’s latest, high-performance Haswell architecture (E-2600v3)

- Dual CPU per processing node

- Minimum 12 cores per processor (24 cores per node)

- Minimum of eight computing nodes

Microprocessor (CPU)

- 64-bit instruction set

- Minimum clock rate: 2.6 GHz

- Minimum number of cores: 12

- Minimum number of threads: 24

- Minimum Level 3 cache size: 30 MB

- Minimum supported address space: 768 GB

- Minimum memory bandwidth: 68 GB/sec

- Maximum Thermal Design Power (TDP): 135 W

Memory

- Minimum 512 GB DDR4 DRAM memory per node

Secondary Storage

- Minimum 2 TB drives

- Minimum 48 TB on an enclosure

- Minimum 12 TB aggregate storage on a node

- Solid-state drive technology for higher reliability and more predictable failure characteristics than electromechanical drives

Network Interface

- Dual-ported 10 Gb/sec Ethernet network interfaces