Request for Information for High Performance Computing

For each Business Opportunity, please contact the Procurement Officer listed to indicate interest in being placed on the bid list.

UT-Battelle, LLC seeks to procure a High-Performance Computing (HPC) system to be installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). This procurement will be issued under a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) ICPT agreement.

HPC system parameters:

• Computer cabinets must support 480 V, 3-phase power, and cabinet exhaust must be room-neutral.
• Data center chilled water at 42 °F will be provided. (If warmer water is required, the vendor must provide CDUs.
• The system must support a node mix of 75% CPU-only and 25% CPU/GPU nodes, and offer configurations with at least 4 GB of DDR memory per CPU core.
• Total solution power draw may be up to 4 MW, and the system footprint must fit within 40 linear feet.
• The system must be FIPS 140-3 and TAA compliant and support data-at-rest encryption.

Vendor eligibility criteria: 

• Be the primary holder of a DOE ICPT agreement.
• Have demonstrated experience being awarded a large HPC system within the past three (3) years.
• Qualify as a small business under NAICS code 541519.

If interested, please send the following to James Brimhall at brimhalljm@ornl.gov by November 21st:

• Company name
• Capability statement
• Information on past awards demonstrating the capability to meet the specifications above
• ICPT agreement number