Machine Learning and AI for School of Computer Science - Invitation to Register

⁠⁠⁠The University of Sydney intend to carry out a formal open market engagement for:
Machine Learning and AI HPC for School of Computer Science

The University is looking for proposals for a High-Performance Computer designed for AI and Machine Learning research and activities that has similar performances to the following system specifications:

Total Performance: 2 petaFLOPS
GPUs: 16X NVIDIAA?A® Tesla V100GPU
Memory: 512GB
NVIDIA CUDAA?A® Cores: 81920
NVIDIA Tensor Cores: 10240
NVSwitches: 12
CPU: Dual Intel Xeon Platinum 8168, 2.7 GHz, 24-cores
System Memory: 1.5TB
Network: 8X 100Gb/sec Infiniband/100GigEDual 10/25Gb/sec Ethernet

Due to The Limited Grant Funding Available for This Project of $550,000 Including Gst, the University May Not Be Able to Consider Proposal that Is Significantly Higher than Grant Funding.

If you are interested in participating in the tender, please follow the instructions below:

1. If you are not already registered with the University of Sydney as an Ariba bidder, please click on the Self-Registration link below -   http://universityofsydney.sourcing-eu.ariba.com/ad/selfRegistration
When the University of Sydney receives your registration request you will be invited to complete some additional data online to allow you to be approved as a University of Sydney bidder, you will receive a number of confirmation emails.
2. Once you are registered as an Ariba bidder, UniBuy will send you the registration form and you will be requested to register on the Ariba Network. Please check if your organisation is registered on Ariba Network already to ensure you do not register twice.
3. Once you are registered on both the Ariba Network and as a University of Sydney Ariba bidder, and you wish to participate in this University of Sydney tender, please provide your details in the following format at the email address below.

email2workspace-prodeu+universityofsydney+WS208988840+fug6@eusmtp.ariba.com

Make the email Subject: Notice of Interest to Participate in University of Sydney Tender

Include and complete the following in the body of the email:
Name of Tender: Machine Learning for School of Computer Science
USYD Project ID: WS208988840
Supplier Name:
Supplier Contact email:
Your Organisation's Account ID (Ariba Network (AN) number):

PROJECT TIMING
1. To be eligible to participate in this tender you must register
2. Only Registered participants will receive a request to participate directly to the tender when the tender is released
3. Registration will close on the date of 22 March 2019
4. The University intend to commence the tender process on 18 March 2019 for 2 weeks (note: subject to change).
5. No time extension will be given for late registration

For any queries or support please contact Procurement Tender at procurement.tender@sydney.edu.au