National University Corporation - Notice of request for submission of materialsExtended Infrastructure System for Data Exploitation Platform 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.

Japanese

Publishing date Feb 16, 2024
Type of notice Notice of request for submission of materials
Procurement entity National University Corporation - Osaka
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 purchased : Extended Infrastructure System for Data Exploitation Platform 1 Set
⑶ Type of the procurement : products to be purchased
⑷ Basic requirements of the procurement : Extended Infrastructure System for Data Exploitation Platform (hereinafter referred to as "Extended System") to be introduced consists of general-purpose compute nodes, AI accelerator-equipped compute nodes, storage, interconnect (network), and software.
(A) Requirements for general-purpose compute nodes
Must consist of multiple nodes. Each node must have multiple CPU cores.
(B) Requirements for AI accelerator-equipped compute nodes
Must consist of multiple nodes. Each node must have multiple CPU cores. Each node must be equipped with accelerators.
(C) Requirements for storage
Storage consists of parallel file systems and object storage.
(C-1) Parallel File System
Parallel file systems must be accessible at high speed and with low latency from general-purpose compute nodes and accelerator-equipped compute nodes.
(D) Interconnect
Connect the general-purpose compute nodes, accelerator-equipped compute nodes, and storage at high speed and low latency to each other. The interconnect can be divided, controlled, and managed into logical subnetworks by user and user group units. The interconnect must be connected to the network that connects to the Internet and mdx, the Platform for the Data-Driven Future deployed at University of Tokyo.
(E) Software
The software consists of compute node software, cloud-linked node software, user portal, system portal, data integration module.
(E-1) Compute node software
Provide the functionality of simultaneously accommodating multiple virtual machines or containers.
(E-2) Cloud-linkednode software
Provide the functionality of simultaneously accommodating multiple virtual machines or containers. These virtual machines or containers must be operated on cloud infrastructure serviced by cloud vendors.
(E-3) User portal
Must provide a set of web interface that allows to create, start, stop, and delete virtual machine or container based on the corresponding templates.
(E-4) System portal
Must provide the functionality that allows to manage and check the status of operation and usage on the above user portal. Must provide the administration functionality of projects which users submit.
(E-5) Data integration module
Must provide the functionality that allows to integrate data among mdx and handai-mdx..
⑸ Time limit for the submission of the requested material : 17 : 15 18 March, 2024
⑹ Contact point for the notice : MORITA Hidetsugu, Contract Division, Department of Finance, Osaka University, 1-1 Yamadaoka Suita shi Osaka 565-0871 Japan, TEL 06-6879-4010