AMENDMENT ONE (1) Questions and Answers NICHD-21-233.pdf

AMENDMENT ONE (1)

MICEF storage server and GPU compute nodes Questions and Answers from RFQ ID: NICHD-21-133

Amendment One is hereby released to provide answers to the questions received in response to the subject solicitation issued August 12, 2021. In the following document, the Government provides the answers to each question that was received. No further questions will be accepted regarding this solicitation.

QUESTION ANSWER

What processor(s) and how many do you need per Storage node, and for GPU Node

Storage node – Intel Xeon Gold 6226R – qty 2 GPU node – AMD EPYC 7443 - qty 2

How many Nvidia A10 GPUs do you need per GPU node?

What size OS drives do you need per Storage Node?

Two 480GB drives

What size OS drives do you need per GPU node. Two 960GB drives Line 3 for “Spare Drives”, How many of each drive sizes is needed (16TB, 960GB NVMe, 4.6TB NVMe)

One of each

What RAID configuration is needed for Storage Node?

RAID 5 with one spare

What speed of Infiniband Cards do you need, and do you need two ports per node for redundancy?

100Gb/s. Need two ports for future expansion

Do you have a detailed specification for Storage Server and CPU Compute Node?

What is the Preferred Processors core count and speed for the Storage and GPU nodes?

Storage node – 16-core GPU node – 24-core

For the InfiniBand connection, what speed is preferred 40/50/100/200Gb?

100Gb or more

For the InfiniBand connection, what speed is preferred 40/50/100/200Gb?

100GB or more

Does the existing network supports 10G BASE-T or 10GB SFP+ connections?

10G Base-T (RJ45)

Please check if OS drive are needed for each node and if HDD or SSD is preferred along with the capacity

OS drives needed for each node. NVMe SSD is preferred.

Please check if NVIDIA Tesla P40 24GB Module will be consider for the GPU

P40 will not be considered because of higher power consumption

Does this requirement has a Small Business Set Aside?

Yes