US Geological Survey needs vendors to assist with climate model supercomputing environment; first contacts due March 17

The US Geological Survey agency is seeking vendors with the capability to provide support for the agency’s climate model supercomputing environment, USGS announced. 

The modeling and reconstructing past, present and future climate in North American project funded by the Land Change Science Research and Development Program is currently conducting climate simulations for the Department of Interior using global and regional numerical climate models. 

The project has been ongoing at Oregon State University for the past 25 years. The climate models are based on large code bases and require high speed, multithreaded CPUs, large memory capacity and very large volumes of disk storage. 

Model simulations typically take months to complete running 24 hours per day and they produce 10s of terabytes of model output that must be stored, transferred to local storage, and post-processed. CPU loads typically average >97% on an annual basis. Capacity, security in terms of fault tolerance, access speed and stability of long-term data bases are critical. 

High levels of usage of the computers and storage are currently ongoing under a recently developed and fully implemented collaboration between the project and the Impacts of Climate Change on Communities, Landscapes, Ecosystems, and Organisms

For further information, interested parties may contact the Contracting Officer, Charlan Fejarang at cjfejarang@usgs.gov by the due date COB March 17, 2021.

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