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70 -- HIGH SPEED LARGE-MEMORY SUPERCOMPUTER SYSTEM SOL N00014-96-R-ET01 POC Evelyn Taylor, Contract Specialist, Code 3240.ET, (202) 767-2983 F. Janilea Bays, Contracting Officer, Code 3240.JB. The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has a requirement for a high-speed large-memory supercomputer system to support research and development of advanced floating-point compute-intensive models and simulations written in both C and FORTRAN. NRL's present system is a Convex C-3 (4 CPUs, 1 GFLOPS peak, 2 GByte physical memory) and ancillary workstations. The supercomputer system must provide a UNIX operating system and be capable of meeting larger memory and throughput goals both for multiple job streams and single jobs amenable to parallel execution on multiple processors. This system must provide a powerful parallel programming environment for both C and FORTRAN, and Motif X/Windows graphical user interface. The system must perform as a single exceptionally fast workstation or uniprocessor capable of handling large memory, and multiple day tasks. The minimum requirements include: CPU performance on standard parallel benchmarks; 8 GByte (aggregate) of physical semiconductor memory; 12 Gbyte (aggregate) virtual memory (physical plus paging); fast/wide SCSI-2 removable cassette disks; SCSI 8mm and 4 mm tape and CD-ROM; Ethernet & FDDI; UNIX O/S with standard user and admin features including X & Motif; C & FORTRAN optimizing/parallelizing compilers; C++ compiler or preprocessor to C; C, C++ and FORTRAN debugging and profiling tools; standard UNIX (TCP/IP) networking, including NFS & NIS; optimized math libraries; AVS & other data visualization software; and support of network backups. This acquisition consists of hardware, software and three (3) full years of warranty. Vendors shall be responsible for equipment installation and acceptance testing. A Pre-proposal conference is anticipated. NRL application benchmarks will be available for evaluating speed and coding effort. Time will be allotted for vendors to port and optimize each benchmark. Anticipated delivery to be 60 days after date of contract with three (3) years warranty and two (2) one-year maintenance options. Secret level security clearance required. Complete specifications are available as part of NRL Solicitation No. N00014-96-R-ET01, which is to be released unrestricted. Telephone requests for this solicitation will not be honored. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which shall be considered by the Agency. Send requests for N00014-96-R-ET01 to Contracting Officer, ATTN: Code 3240.ET, Naval Research Laboratory, 4555 Overlook Avenue, S. W., Washington, DC 20375-5326. Synopsis No. ET01 (0067)

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