High Performance Computing Cluster (HPCC) for DTU, AIT

Beskrivelse af udbuddet

The Danish Technical University (DTU) wants to purchase a fast, high capacity, high performance computing cluster for wind energy, mechanical structure optimization and general research purposes, with an emphasis on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) models.
The Danish wind energy research environment is internationally recognized as being in the forefront of wind energy technology, and The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) has provided a major part of the wind energy research in Denmark.
A large part of the research is centered around computer models, from advanced structural modeling, aeroelastic and dynamic stability, aerodynamics, incompressible finite volume based computational fluid dynamics models, wind resources and mesoscale meteorological models.
The typical workload on the computer is a blend of large parametric studies of relative short single processor runs, parallel runs utilizing a limited number of CPU's with high memory requirement, and massive parallel runs with balanced memory requirements.
A range of software is in use, ranging from locally developed applications to standard scientific software from other research institutes and commercial vendors.
This system is to be built as a commodity hardware cluster based on Linux and open source software. The operating system for the cluster will be a recent version of CentOS 7 or RedHat 7 and the cluster will be deployed using the OpenHPC (http://openhpc.community/) for the compute nodes and EasyBuild (http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) or Spack (https://spack.io/) for the cluster software.
All servers in this cluster will have Lustre client installed for access various file systems residing on a Lustre storage cluster.
Parallel computations are expected to be mainly conducted using Message Passing Interface (MPI) protocol and utilize the OpenMPI and Mvapich software packages in particular
Compilers used: GNU C/C++/Fortran, Intel C/C++/Fortran and PGI,
The community version of SLURM (https://www.schedmd.com/) will be used for resource management and scheduling.
In addition ethernet for management purposes the cluster should have a low latency, high-performance and non-blocking network, preferably with simple cabling, for compute node interconnection and storage transport.
Evaluation will include a benchmark test.
It is mandatory that test servers are provided for this benchmark test, at least 2 fully configured servers according to requirements 7.1-7.21 fully representing the setup of the tendered solution.

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Complaint regarding the award of a Framework Agreement:
Complaint regarding the award of a Framework Agreement must be submitted no later than 6 months from the date after the Contracting Authority have notified the concerned candidates and tenderers that award of contract has happened, cf. Law regarding the Complaints board (in Danish Klagenævnet for Udbud) § 7, section 2, no. 3.
Complaint regarding direct award of contract:
Complaint regarding the Contracting Authority’s award of contract without prior publication of a contract notice in the European Union Official Journal must be submitted no later than 30 calendar days from the date after a contract award notice has been published by the Contracting Authority in the European Union Official Journal and that contract award notice includes the grounds for the decision to award the contract directly, cf. Law regarding Complaints board (in danish Klagenævnet for Udbud) § 7, section 3.
Compliant regarding public procurements below the EU threshold:
Complaint regarding public procurements below the EU threshold must be submitted no later than 45 calendar days from the date after the Contracting Authority has notified the Tenderers about the award of contract if this notification includes the grounds for the decision; and no later than 6 months after the date where the Contracting Authority has notified the candidates and tenderers about that award of a Framework Agreement, if the notification includes the grounds for the decision, cf. Law regarding Complaints board (in danish Klagenævnet for Udbud) § 7, section 4, No. 1 and 2. Compliant regarding a decision on shortlisting on procurement below the EU threshold must be submitted no later than 20 calendar days from the date after the Contracting Authority has sent a notification to the concerned Candidates regarding who has been selected and this notification includes the grounds for the decision, cf. Law regarding Complaints board (in danish Klagenævnet for Udbud) § 7, section 5.