The contract concerns the purchase of a high performance computing cluster for DTU Wind Energy Department.
This system is to be built as a Beowulf Cluster, which basically means 'commodity hardware deploying Linux OS and open source software'.
— The operating system for the cluster will be Cent OS Linux,
— OSCAR (Open Source Cluster Application Resources) or a similar solution will be used for distribution of cluster software. (see http://www.csm.ornl.gov/oscar/ and http://oscar.openclustergroup.org/),
— All servers in this cluster will have Lustre client software for access to the home file system residing on the Lustre File Server,
— Parallel computations are expected to be mainly conducted using Message Passing Interface (MPI) protocoland utilize the Open MPI software package in particular,
— Compilers used: GNU, Intel Fortran and C, and PathScale,
— TORQUE and MAUI will be used for queue management and scheduling.
The cluster should have non-blocking Infiniband network for compute node interconnect and Ethernet for management purposes.
It is mandatory that test servers are provided for benchmark test (1 server qualitatively representing the set-up of the tendered solution).
The benchmark will be based on locally developed applications for wind turbine calculations:
— EllipSys 3D (Fortran based, MPI parallelized, multiblock incompressible CFD flow solver),
— HAWC II (multibody aeroelastic).
Section V: Award of contract
Contract No: 13-10320
V.1) Date of contract award decision:
16.10.2013
V.2) Information about offers
Number of offers received: 3
V.3) Name and address of economic operator in favour of whom the contract award decision has been taken
Hewlett-Packard Aps, Engholm Parkvej 8, 3450 Allerød, DENMARK