Leadership Class Computing Services

NIST performs research in measurement science, in critical and emerging technologies, and performs investigations leading to services, standards, and guidelines that advance U.S. competitiveness, economic security, and the wellbeing of U.S. citizens. NIST’s research spans a broad set of disciplines all requiring the combination of services found only at the nation’s most advanced academic supercomputing facility.

The services NIST requires include access to distributed computational and data analytics capabilities, data storage suited for in-process computation, data storage for researcher’s data sets/results, and data storage for different levels of data sensitivity.

NIST requires access to a portfolio of scientific/technical software integral to the conduct of research across the many scientific and technical disciplines in which NIST is engaged, as well as access to software optimization services and job management support to accelerate the productivity of NIST’s researchers.

In addition, NIST requires research collaboration with the service provider possessing the computational domain expertise necessary to modify and enhance NIST’s computational codes to make the most efficient use of the HPC capabilities, architectures, and capacities offered. NIST also requires privileged access to the providers systems for NIST’s own HPC support experts affording NIST with capabilities to support NIST’s researchers and to acquire metrics on usage and NIST workload performance.

NIST also requires connectivity to the nation’s highest speed research and engineering computer networks enabling data transfers to between NIST and the provider to be accomplished with maximum efficiency while incurring no network data transfer costs for NIST. See attached document for more details and how to respond to this notice.