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Combined Synopsis Solicitation for Real-Time Data Reduction Servers Amendment 0004 The purpose of this amendment is to change the delivery timeline and extend the due date for submitting quotation to ... Combined Synopsis Solicitation for Real-Time Data Reduction Servers Amendment 0004 The purpose of this amendment is to change the delivery timeline and extend the due date for submitting quotation to 04/16/21 at 1:00 PM. All other terms and conditions remain unchanged. With awareness of current supply problems related to the requested Nvidia RTX 3090 GPU’s, NIST is changing the delivery timeline: From: Delivery shall be FOB destination and shall occur within two (2) Months ARO. To: Delivery shall be FOB destination and shall occur within one hundred twenty (120) days ARO. Amendment 0003: The purpose of this amendment is to extend the due date for submiting quotation to 03/26/21 at 5PM. All other terms and conditions remain unchanged. Amendment 0002: The purpose of this amendment is to answer question. All other terms and conditions remain unchanged. Questions regarding CLIN 0001 Line 5. Four GeForce RTX 3090 cards and room for up to eight. Question 1: Do NIST plan to expand up to eight GeForce RTX 3090 in the future? If yes, you’ll have an issue with PCIe slot spacing as almost all GPU RTX 3090 card manufacturers exceeds 2 slot width. Even if the server motherboard can accommodate (8) GPU cards you will not be able to install up to (8) GPU cards due to GPU exact width measurement. Server motherboard that can accommodate (8) GPU cards have an exact 2 slot width just like NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000, 6000 and 8000. Answer1: NIST does not plan to expand up to eight GeForce RTX 3090 in the future. If NIST decide to expand its GPU compute capability, NIST would change the model of compute card at that time or would purchase additional servers, but NIST does not have plan for that at this time. Question 2: Do NIST open to using NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000? By using Quadro RTX 5000 you’ll be able to expand up to (8) GPU cards without having to worry about slot width or spacing issue within the server motherboard. Answer 2: NIST is not open to eight Quadro RTX 5000 cards instead of four 3090 cards. They do not meet NIST’s requirements for doing the single-precision integer operations at the scale NIST need. Amendment 0001: The purpose of this amendment is to answer question. All other terms and conditions remain unchanged. Question 1: I am wondering if the items listed on CLIN 0001 are separate items that you will piece together, or are you wanting them inside their own server box and delivered to your location? Answer 1: CLIN 0001 specifies that NIST wants “two servers that meet the following requirements”, not boxes of parts. Servers must be assembled and functional. Question 2: The list of 12 items on CLIN 0001, do they need to be doubled, or have you already done that in the list? E.g. #1 asks for Two Xeon Silver 4216 16-Core CPUs. Do you need one Xeon Silver per unit, or is it 4 total for the two Reduction Servers? Answer 2: Each server must have the specifications under CLIN 0001; “The Contractor shall provide quantity of two (2) real-time data reductions servers, each of which shall meet the following minimum requirements:”.