(RE-13066) Purchase of GPU Workstation [Publication Period: October 16, 2024 - November 5, 2024]

(RE-13066) Purchase of GPU Workstation [Publication Period: October 16, 2024 - November 5, 2024] Announcement Period: ~ ( ) will be offered. 1. Matters to be subject to competitive bidding: As per the specifications. 2. Place for submission of bid forms, etc. Place for distribution of bid explanation documents, etc., and place for submission of bid forms, etc., and contact information (direct dial) nyuusatsu_qst@qst.go.jp Method of distribution of bid explanation documents, etc. Distributed at the place of distribution indicated in 2. (1) above or by electronic mail. However, distribution is on weekdays, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, national holidays, and year-end and New Year holidays (December 29 - January 3). If you wish to receive by email, please send an email to the address in 2. (1) above, stating "Announcement Date, Bid Item Name, Contact Person's Name, Your Company Name, Address, Department, Name, Phone Number, FAX, E-Mail." The deadline for receiving distribution is 17:00 on . Date and time and place of bid explanation meeting Submission deadline for bid-related documents and technical review documents Date and time and place of bid opening Financial Department, Contract Section, Natsuki Kawabata Wednesday, November 25, Reiwa 8 (2026) 14:00 Headquarters (Chiba Area) Bid Office (4) Friday, November 6, Reiwa 8 (2026) 17:00 (5) Not held E-mail: (2) Thursday, November 5, Reiwa 8 (2026) 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture 263-8555 TEL 043-206-3015 FAX 043-251-7979 (4) Place of execution: As per specifications (1) (2) Content (3) Delivery deadline: March 29, Reiwa 9 (2027) October 16, Reiwa 8 (2026) National Institute for Quantum Science and Technology Director of Financial Department, Masahiko Hattori (1) Project Name: Purchase of GPU Workstation R8.10.16 R8.11.5 Purchase Bid Announcement We will conduct a general competitive bid as follows. 3. Qualifications required for bidders Not to be under a suspension of designation from this institution. Must have general competitive bidding qualifications for all ministries and agencies. Must be able to submit a pledge stating that the bidder is not a yakuza organization, as separately designated by this institution. 4. Bid security and contract security: Exempt 5. Invalid bids Bids submitted by those who do not have the necessary qualifications to participate in the bid. Bids submitted by those who violate the bidding conditions. 6. Requirement for contract creation: Required 7. Method of determining the successful bidder 8. Other Will be posted on the institution's website. Announced as above. Submit a written inquiry to the contact point above. Answers to inquiries will be provided by Friday, October 30, Reiwa 8 (2026). For details, please refer to the bid explanation document. Please be sure to obtain the bid explanation document by the method described in 2. (2) above. (1) Those who wish to participate in this bid must submit a pledge stating that they are not a yakuza organization, as separately designated by this institution, at the time of submitting the bid form. (2) If the pledge in the preceding paragraph is not submitted, or if a false pledge is made, or if it is found to be in violation of the pledge, the bid will be invalidated. (3) (4) If there are any questions regarding this bid, please submit them by 17:00 on Friday, October 23, Reiwa 8 (2026). (2) The bidder who passes the technical review and submits the lowest valid bid within the limit of the estimated price will be the successful bidder. (Lowest Price Bidding Method) (2) When determining the successful bid, the bid price plus 10% of that amount (rounded down to the nearest yen if there is a fraction of less than 1 yen) will be the successful bid price. Therefore, bidders must write the amount equivalent to 100/110 of the estimated amount on the bid form, regardless of whether they are taxable or tax-exempt business operators for consumption tax. (2) Not to fall under the provisions of Article 11, Paragraph 1 of the National Institute for Quantum Science and Technology Contract Administration Regulations. (3) (4) (5) (1) A contract document (if the contract amount is 5 million yen or more) or a receipt (if the contract amount is less than 5 million yen) as determined by this institution shall be prepared. (1) Not to fall under the provisions of Article 10 of the National Institute for Quantum Science and Technology Contract Administration Regulations. However, this does not apply to minors, persons under guardianship or assistance who have obtained the necessary consent for contract conclusion. Specifications (1) Project Name: Purchase of GPU Workstation (2) Quantity: 1 set (3) Purpose: To be used for analysis of brain neural activity using AI (Deep Neural Network). (4) Delivery deadline: March 29, Reiwa 9 (2027) (5) Delivery location: N301, Exploration Research Building, 3rd Floor, National Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture (6) Delivery conditions: Delivery to the designated location indicated in Section 5 by the contractor or a transportation company. Delivery by courier, freight, or other transportation means is acceptable, and on-site presence of the contractor is not required. Delivery in a packed state is acceptable, and unpacking, installation, and initial setup are not required. Initial setup here refers to on-site work at the delivery location, and OS installation and other pre-shipment settings specified in Section 7 shall be performed by the contractor. (7) Specifications and Performance: Must meet the following requirements. 1. Basic Configuration: Tower type GPU workstation. 2. CPU: Must be equipped with an AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9960X, AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9965WX, or a workstation CPU with equivalent or higher performance. However, the following conditions must all be met: • 24 cores, 48 threads or more. • Base clock of 4.0 GHz or higher for 24-31 cores. • Base clock of 3.5 GHz or higher for 32-63 cores. • Base clock of 2.5 GHz or higher for 64 cores or more. • DDR5 ECC RDIMM compatible. • PCI Express 5.0 compatible. • For AMD CPUs, it must be the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series or Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9000 WX series, or their successors, with an architecture of Zen 5 or later. • For Intel CPUs, it must be the Xeon W-3500 series or its successor. 3. Motherboard: Must use a workstation platform compatible with the installed CPU (TRX50 or WRX90 for AMD CPUs, W790 for Intel Xeon W, or a platform with equivalent or higher functionality). However, the following requirements must all be met: • Capable of using 2 GPUs via PCIe 5.0 x16, and simultaneously using 2 NVMe drives and 2 10GbE ports. • Must have expansion capabilities to simultaneously use the GPUs, memory, NVMe SSDs, and network interfaces specified in these specifications. 4. Memory: Must be equipped with DDR5 ECC RDIMM 256GB or more. Must be DDR5-4800 or higher, and the total capacity must operate with ECC enabled. 5. GPU: Must be equipped with one GPU for GPU workstations. Must be NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition 96GB or equivalent, and must meet all of the following requirements: • GPU memory of 96GB or more, ECC compatible. • 20,000 CUDA Cores or more. • Single-precision floating-point performance of 110 TFLOPS or more. • GPU memory bandwidth of 1,700 GB/s or more. • PCI Express 5.0 x16 connection compatible. • CUDA 12.8 or later compatible for GPU computation. • Maximum power consumption of 400W or less. 6. GPU Expandability: Must be possible to add one more GPU of the same specifications as in the previous item in the future, for a total of 2 GPUs. The following requirements must also be met: • In the 2-GPU configuration, both GPUs must be usable simultaneously via PCI Express 5.0 x16. • Adding a GPU must not require replacement of the motherboard, CPU, existing memory, power supply unit, chassis, or main cooling mechanism. • Even in the 2-GPU configuration, it must be possible to simultaneously use 2 or more NVMe SSDs and 2 or more 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports as specified, and the PCI Express connection width of the GPUs must not be reduced to x16 by their use. • Must have sufficient physical installation space, power supply connections, and cooling capacity for the 2-GPU configuration. 7. Storage: The following two NVMe SSDs must be installed as independent drives. • For OS/System: NVMe SSD 2TB class or higher (1.92TB or more) x 1 • For Data/Scratch: NVMe SSD 4TB class or higher (3.84TB or more) x 1 The Data/Scratch SSD must be a single drive configuration, not a RAID configuration. 8. Network: Must have 2 or more 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports with RJ45 connection. Both ports must be usable simultaneously as 10 Gigabit Ethernet. 9. OS: Must install Ubuntu 24.04 LTS or a later LTS version and be usable upon delivery. The hardware, including video output and network interfaces, must be recognized and usable in a normal state upon delivery. Installation of GPU device drivers and CUDA is not required. 10. Power Supply: Must be equipped with a power supply unit of 80 PLUS Platinum or equivalent. The following requirements must also be met: • AC 200V input compatible. • Must have a rated capacity sufficient for stable operation when the CPU and 2 GPUs (meeting the requirements in Section 7.5) are used simultaneously under high load. • Must not require replacement of the power supply unit when expanding to a 2-GPU configuration. • Must have the necessary power connectors and wiring for the 2-GPU configuration. 11. Chassis/Cooling: Tower type chassis. The following requirements must also be met: • Must have internal space and expansion slot layout to accommodate 2 GPUs meeting the requirements in Section 7.5. • Must not require replacement of the motherboard, chassis, or main cooling mechanism when expanding to a 2-GPU configuration. • Must have cooling capacity sufficient for stable operation when the CPU and 2 GPUs are used simultaneously under high load. • Maximum chassis dimensions must be within width 70cm x depth 80cm x height 100cm. 12. USB: Must have 2 or more USB ports for connecting USB keyboards, mice, external storage media, etc. 13. Video Output: Must be able to connect one or more external displays for initial setup and maintenance. 14. Warranty: Must have a hardware warranty of one year or more after delivery. In case of hardware failure not attributable to the client during the warranty period, free repair or parts replacement will be provided. Warranty service may include on-site repair, send-back repair, item collection and repair, or replacement item shipment. (8) Promotion of Green Purchasing Law 1. If it is possible to adopt environmentally friendly products (office supplies, OA equipment, etc.) applicable to the Green Purchasing Law (Act on Promoting Procurement of Environmental Goods by the Government and Other Entities) in this contract, they shall be adopted. 2. Submitted documents (printed matter) specified in these specifications must meet the standards for "paper products" stipulated in the basic policy of the Green Purchasing Law. (9) Submitted Documents Document Name: Submission Period: Number of Copies: Confirmation Configuration Table: Upon Delivery: 1 copy: Required (10) Inspection: The delivered items will be inspected for quantity, appearance, and confirmation of specifications and configuration based on the delivery note, configuration table, and other submitted documents. Inspection will be deemed passed when it is confirmed that the requirements specified in these specifications are met. Power-on and performance testing after unpacking are not mandatory conditions for passing inspection. However, if initial defects not attributable to the client, transportation damage, or discrepancies with specifications are confirmed within 30 days after delivery, the contractor shall repair, replace parts, or replace the item free of charge. (11) Other: If any doubts arise regarding these specifications, consult with the requester and follow instructions. Department: Brain Function Imaging Research Center, Research Center for Quantum Medical Science Requester: Kenji Kotanoya