Rfp Cedar Advanced Research Computing System Supercomputing Cluster Replacement Tender

Procurement Summary

Country : Canada

Summary : Rfp Cedar Advanced Research Computing System Supercomputing Cluster Replacement

Deadline : 22 Apr 2024

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 98583530

Document Ref. No. : SFU 2023-ES-334

Competition : ICB

Financier : Self Financed

Purchaser Ownership : Public

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
British Columbia, CAN
Contact Information : Eric Sheng, 778-782-6869, zlsheng@sfu.ca
Canada
Email :zlsheng@sfu.ca

Tender Details

Cedar, housed at Simon Fraser University (SFU), is the largest general-purpose computing system in support of Advanced Research Computing (ARC) in Canada and runs a diverse set of code in support of advanced materials science, drug discovery, and climate science, as well as AI, machine learning, and the digital humanities and others.This RFP is to replace the Cedar general-purpose high-performance computing (HPC) Cluster and Storage infrastructure owned and operated by SFU with a completely new, autonomous cluster. Procurement and deployment of a new system is open to any Canadian researcher with Resource Allocation Competition (RAC), and tens of thousands of Canada-wide non-RAC users. The proposed infrastructure will be maintained and available throughout its useful lifespan by SFU-s Research Computing Group (RCG) in consultation with other national host sites and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada Federation teams.
Solicitation Type : RFP - Request for Proposal (Formal)
Reference Number : 0000265648
Location : Canada, British Columbia
Delivery Point : SFU Burnaby
Purchase Type : Duration: 5 years
Description : Cedar, housed at Simon Fraser University (SFU), is the largest general-purpose computing system in support of Advanced Research Computing (ARC) in Canada and runs a diverse set of code in support of advanced materials science, drug discovery, and climate science, as well as AI, machine learning, and the digital humanities and others.This RFP is to replace the Cedar general-purpose high-performance computing (HPC) Cluster and Storage infrastructure owned and operated by SFU with a completely new, autonomous cluster. Procurement and deployment of a new system is open to any Canadian researcher with Resource Allocation Competition (RAC), and tens of thousands of Canada-wide non-RAC users. The proposed infrastructure will be maintained and available throughout its useful lifespan by SFU’s Research Computing Group (RCG) in consultation with other national host sites and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada Federation teams.

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