University of Colorado Boulder 95618850

UCB - Computing Cluster Components- 95618850

The University of Colorado Boulder, specifically the High Energy Physics (HEP) Group, is procuring computing cluster components to upgrade their existing cluster used for data analysis and Monte Carlo simulations. The awarded vendor will supply specific hardware components including 16 Intel Core i7-7820X Skylake-X 8-Core CPUs, 40 WD Black 6TB Performance Desktop Hard Disk Drives, 16 WD Black 1TB Performance Desktop Hard Disk Drives, 16 ASRock X299 Killer SLI/ac Intel Motherboards, 20 GIGABYTE GeForce 210 Video Cards, 20 SUPERMICRO CSE-822T-400LPB 2U Rackmount Server Cases, 20 Dynatron R5 CPU Coolers, and 16 CORSAIR Vengeance RGB 64GB DDR4 SDRAM memory kits. The contract requires delivery FOB Destination to the University of Colorado Boulder campus at the Duane Physics building, with the vendor responsible for any damage during shipping and setup to be performed by the department. The components must be compatible with existing systems and meet strict brand and model requirements with limited substitutions allowed. The equipment must be new, fully functional with at least a one-year warranty and three-year parts warranty. The University reserves rights to negotiate equipment changes with the low bidder and to piggyback similar orders for 30 days post-award. The upgrade aims to increase compute cores by about 20% as part of a two-phase expansion to enhance computing capacity for research on energy and intensity frontiers by CU HEP faculty, postdocs, and graduate students.

Description

Upgrade to a computing cluster to add new resources to the existing computing cluster used by the CU High Energy Physics Group. The project aims to increase the number of compute cores by about 20% as part one of a two-part upgrade to expand capacity and keep the cluster current. The cluster supports research on energy and intensity frontiers and is part of the Open Science Grid.

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