Japanese Government Procurement

National Institute of Information and Communications Technology - Notice of request for submission of materialsComputing Facilities for the Construction of Multilingual Database Infrastructure, 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 Sep 15, 2026
Type of notice Notice of request for submission of materials
Procurement entity National Institute of Information and Communications Technology - 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 purchased : Computing Facilities for the Construction of Multilingual Database Infrastructure, 1 set
⑶ Type of the procurement : Purchase
⑷ Basic requirements of the procurement : These computing facilities shall include a deep learning computing system, a general-purpose computing system, a control system, a large-capacity storage system, and a high-speed network
① The deep learning computing system shall consist of multiple computing nodes, and each computing node shall be equipped with at least 2CPUs and at least 2GPGPUs. The number of GPGPUs per computing node shall be uniform. The total number of GPGPUs installed in the entire system shall be at least 120
② Each GPGPU in each computing node of the deep learning computing system shall have at least 48GB of ECC-enabled memory, at least 864GB/s of memory bandwidth, and at least 64GB/s of bi-directional GPU interconnect bandwidth
③ Theoretical computational
performance of a single GPGPU shall be at least 91.6TFLOPS in single-precision floating-point operations
④ Each computing node of the deep learning computing system shall have at least 512GB of main memory per CPU
⑤ The general-purpose computing system shall consist of multiple computing nodes, and each computing node shall be equipped with at least 2CPUs. The total number of CPUs installed in the entire system shall be at least 100
⑥ Each computing node of the general-purpose computing system shall have at least 512GB of main memory per CPU
⑦ The control system shall consist of multiple control servers and shall provide the functions necessary to manage the entire system, including login nodes and batch processing servers
⑧ The large-capacity storage system shall provide an effective storage capacity of at least 2PiB, support a high-speed, high-reliability parallel file system, and be accessible at high speed from all servers
⑨ The high-speed network shall provide a bandwidth of at least 25Gbps and connect all servers and storage systems
⑩ The operating system shall be UNIX-compliant, and the deep learning computing system shall support batch processing
⑪ The deep learning computing system shall support programming languages such as FORTRAN, C, and C++, a parallel programming environment such as MPI, development tools, and various deep learning frameworks. The system shall also be programmable using common development tools such as CUDA
⑫ The system shall include hardware and software maintenance support
⑸ Time limit for the submission of the requested material : 17 : 00 26 October 2026
⑹ Contact point for the notice : Kouji Tanaka, Common Infrastructure Group, General Planning Office, Universal Communication Research Institute, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, 3-5 Hikaridai Seika-cho Soraku-gun Kyoto-fu 619-0289 Japan TEL 0774-98-6878
E-mail ci-post@khn.nict.go.jp