NERSC-6 Project

NERSC-6 Award

NERSC-6 Request for Proposals

Proposals for this project were due on Friday, October 10, 2008 3:00 PM Pacific

RFP Amendment 1 (September 16, 2008)

Request For Proposal Package (revised Sept. 4, 2008 / with corrected "General Provisions" document Sept. 9, 2008)

The NERSC-6 RFP has been approved by DOE/SC for release and publication on this Web site on September 4, 2008. Interested Offerors are advised to discard all preceding draft RFP documents that were published on this Web site prior to September 4, 2008. Interested Offerors are advised to base their proposal responses on RFP documents now available on this Web site and any subsequent RFP amendments.

Interested Offerors must submit all communication (questions, comments, etc.) about the NERSC-6 RFP to lerippe_at_lbl_dot_gov. The NERSC-6 market discussion phase is complete; therefore, interested Offerors are no longer permitted direct communication with the NERSC-6 technical community except for regular business activities that do not pertain to the NERSC-6 RFP or as otherwise directed by the LBNL Subcontracts Manager.

Interested Offerors are advised to monitor this Web site for potential NERSC-6 RFP amendments and other NERSC-6 RFP information updates. LBNL may notify interested Offerors (who have previously contacted LBNL and expressed an interest in the NERSC-6 RFP) of updated NERSC-6 RFP information via e-mail; however, LBNL is under no obligation to do so. It is the responsibility of all interested Offerors to monitor this Web site for current NERSC-6 RFP information.

Vendor Briefing

• Vendor Briefing slides
• Best Value Source Selection (BVSS) criteria slides

Benchmarks

• Details on how to run the benchmarks are described in the Benchmarking Instructions (revised September 4, 2008) and in the individual README files in each application. You will need to register and agree to the benchmark code terms and conditions before downloading the code.
• Go To Benchmarks Page

Questions and Answers

• List of Questions and Answers

NERSC Hardware/Software Environment

• Overview of NERSC systems, mass storage, and networks
  • Network description
• Compilers used at NERSC
• Programming libraries
  • List of libraries
  • Math libraries
  • MPI at NERSC
• Software Applications
• List of tools (includes debuggers, profilers, code engineering, etc.)
• Environment Modules

Supplemental Information

• A whitepaper describing the NERSC workload and the NERSC-6 benchmarks is available here.