Procurement Project HPC B1

General time-schedule

The current general time-schedule for the B1 - capability system is as follows:
  • Publication of the Competition: Q4 2018
  • Procurement Process: Q4 2018 – Q1 2019
  • Installation and Commissioning: Q4 2019

Benchmarks

The B1 procurement consists of three synthetic benchmarks to verify mandatory requirements. Although it contains open source software only, it must be downloaded from this site to ensure the very same version is used by all vendors.

In addition, four application benchmarks are used for evaluation of the tender:

Suppliers need to contact the customer through Visma TendSign for access. A one-time link to set username and password will then be received by email. Please ignore the advice to log into sigma2.no/user. Navigate directly to this page and click on items to download. You will then be asked for your username and password. Only one account per supplier will be provided.

NorESM download

Because of the size of the archive (83 GB), downloads of NorESM using popular browsers often fail. If you experience download problems with NorESM, please contact us via Visma TendSign for a password free download link.

 

MD5SUM

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b85233dd76a897406b4f1a005fdd80d3  Bifrost_bench_v1.1.tgz
ae69cce357e677b06f52164e04b5a328  lsdalton.tgz
0d43a76c0a29c7fd9ccec7ba581fef45  Sigma2-mglet-benchmark.tgz