HPC Storage System

Status: Addendum Posted
Contact Name: Patty Winkler
Contact Number: 979-845-4556
Contact Email: p-winkler@tamu.edu
Response Due Date: 6/21/2021
Response Due Time: 2:00 PM
Agency/Texas SmartBuy Member Number: 711
Days Solicited: 21+ Days for Solicitation Notice
Solicitation Posting Date: 5/25/2021
Last Modified: 6/7/2021 9:10 am
Solicitation Description: Texas A&M at Qatar intends to retire our old DDN storage after the acquisition of a new storage system.   In doing so, we wish to provide flexible storage resources that can accommodate the needs of a wide variety of HPC workloads for current and future research activities. In general, our workloads are diverse and include both large file sequential I/O as well as random I/O patterns, not to mention small files.   Our current system is well suited to large file I/O but does not support small file I/O very well (which is typical for

Luster-based systems).   To minimize spending, the approach we will follow is to initially procure a system with capabilities roughly matching those of the existing DDN system, and then upgrade performance of that system in the subsequent year. To enable this strategy, the storage proposal must include upgrade scenarios that optionally permit TAMUQ to upgrade the capacity and/or performance of the initially deployed system in the second year of its life.   The performance upgrade scenario shall be targeted primarily to improving small file I/O and random I/O performance with the addition of SSDs to the solution in some form or manner.   The cost of the upgrade scenarios shall be specified in the storage proposal, and the selection of a winning proposal will depend, among other things, on the total cost of the solution (to include both the initially deployed system as well as the potential upgrades).
Texas A&M at Qatar intends to retire our old DDN storage after the acquisition of a new storage system.   In doing so, we wish to provide flexible storage resources that can accommodate the needs of a wide variety of HPC workloads for current and future research activities.
 
In general, our workloads are diverse and include both large file sequential I/O as well as random I/O patterns, not to mention small files.   Our current system is well suited to large file I/O but does not support small file I/O very well (which is typical for Luster-based systems).   To minimize spending, the approach we will follow is to initially procure a system with capabilities roughly matching those of the existing DDN system, and then upgrade performance of that system in the subsequent year.
 
To enable this strategy, the storage proposal must include upgrade scenarios that optionally permit TAMUQ to upgrade the capacity and/or performance of the initially deployed system in the second year of its life.   The performance upgrade scenario shall be targeted primarily to improving small file I/O and random I/O performance with the addition of SSDs to the solution in some form or manner.   The cost of the upgrade scenarios shall be specified in the storage proposal, and the selection of a winning proposal will depend, among other things, on the total cost of the solution (to include both the initially deployed system as well as the potential upgrades).

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Addendum: Addendum 1 6/7/2021
Class/Item Code: 20689-*Storage Devices, Electronic (Disk Drive Compatible) 20784-Storage Devices For Tapes And Diskettes: Containers, Racks, Etc.