Japanese Government Procurement
National University Corporation - Notice of request for submission of materialsThe TSUBAME4.0 Supercomputer 1 Set
This procurement is covered by the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement, Japan-EU Economic Partnership Agreement or Japan-UK Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement.
| Publishing date | Oct 01, 2021 |
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| Type of notice | Notice of request for submission of materials |
| Procurement entity | National University Corporation - Tokyo |
| Classification |
0014 Office Machines & Automatic Data Processing Equipment |
| Summay of notice | ⑴ Classification of the products to be procured : 14 ⑵ Nature and quantity of the products to be rent : The TSUBAME4.0 Supercomputer 1 Set ⑶ Type of the procurement : Rent ⑷ Basic requirements of the procurement : The system to be procured and built, TSUBAME4, is an evolution of the current TSUBAME3 supercomputer at the Global Scientific Information and Computing Cen- ter, Tokyo Institute of Technology. TSUBAME4 inherits and extends features of the TSUBAME supercomputer series, high performance, ease of use, and saving energy technologies. Additionally, TSUBAME4 shall be a supercomputer that provides pre-exascale computing resources suitable for the fusion of data science, computational science with simulations, and AI/machine learning as a next-generational computing system. For this purpose, the representative concept of the TSUBAME series, "everyone's supercomputer," is extended to meet the needs of the times, and TSUBAME4 will provide computing services to a variety of users including industrial users and novice users in supercomputing. TSUBAME4 will have compute power of 70 petaflops or more (double precision), total memory bandwidth of 4 petabyte/second or more, and shared storage of 50 petabyte capacity or more. Furthermore, it extends features of the TSUBAME supercomputer series as described below, and proposals should consider how the concepts are achieved : ⒜ "Everyone's supercomputer still more" : The system must support wide users and applications by harnessing components from a broad IT ecosystem. The system should be used not only in a traditional way like with command-line interface and batch job scheduler but also in an interactive way with web browsers. ⒝ "Supercomputer for the fusion of data, science, and AI" : In the hardware aspect, the system must be equipped with large scale and high performance storage for big-data analysis and high performance compute nodes for various applications including scientific simulation and machine learning. In the software aspect, machine learning software stack and various simulation software packages including commercial packages must be supported, which sometimes are used interactively. ⒞ "Energy-efficient supercomputer" : The system will achieve world top class energy efficiency and operational functions for saving energy. As the primary cooling method, warm water cooling will be used. ⒟ "Supercomputer with advanced scheduling techniques" : As computing resources in the system must be harnessed efficiently, the operation has to support flexible resource division. Moreover, the system should support the efficient coexistence of batch jobs interactive jobs including data analysis. ⑸ Time limit for the submission of the requested material : 17 : 00 12 November, 2021 ⑹ Contact point for the notice : Hiroki Ogura, Contract Division, Finance Department, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8550 Japan, TEL 03-5734-2352 |
