AMENDMENT_001_Government_Response_to_Technical_Questions_(Ref._15-04162)_2015-08-12.pdf

Amendment 001 ‐ Questions & Answers

RFQ SB1341‐15‐RQ‐0836

High Density Server

Q1: The requirement in Section C. calls for “hot swappable dual processor mother boards” – MOBOs are not typically hot‐swap, please confirm.

A1: The requirement is hot swapper dual processor motherboard blades.

Q2: Is the design goal for the solution to have a server cluster designed with node level parity and able to tolerate a single cluster node failure?

A2: The design goal is four systems/nodes/blades in a single 2U chassis. The solution do not require node level parity.

Q3: Can you provide a desired drive speed for this solution, also confirm; any speed is accepted as long as performance requirements are met by the solution?

A3: The disks must have a spin rate of at least 7200 (7200 rpm).

Q4: Can you define the total amount of IOPS required for the applications, and application type serviced by the solution?

A4: There is no IOPS requirement.

Q5: The requirement states that no OS is needed, does this mean that free‐ware or existing OS is available via another procurement channel, such as a ELA, IDIQ or BPA?

A5: NIST will use it existing HPC Linux based OS.

Q6: Is the HPC environment a virtualized environment?

A6: The HPC environment is not a virtualized environment.

Q7: The main solicitation and the specifications attachment describe a Supermicro SuperServer model

60278TR‐HTFR. There are no 60278TR‐HTR models. There is a model 6027PR‐HTFR, and a 6028TR‐HTFR, which of these models is correct?

A7: Supermicro SuperServer model 60278TR‐HTFR should be 6028TR‐HTFR.