Lustre High performance parallel file system.

Location:	Mississippi
Posted:	Feb 10, 2026
Due:	Feb 26, 2026
Agency:	Mississippi State University
Type of Government:	State & Local
Category:	70 - General Purpose Information Technology Equipment (including software). D - Automatic Data Processing and Telecommunication Services
Solicitation No:	Bid MSU2025044
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the bidders’ name and address. Bids should be mailed to : 405 Garrard Road E,

Starkville, MS 39759.

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in the State of Mississippi, in addition to the requirements on this form. General Bid

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Bid Number: MSU2025044

Opening Date: February 26, 2026 at 2:00 p.m.

Description: Lustre High Performance Parallel file system to replace an

existing Lustre File system

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Description

Lustre High performance parallel file system

Unit Price Total Price

The Mississippi State University High Performance Computing Collaboratory request bids for a

lustre high performance parallel file system (HPFS) to replace an existing lustre file system.

This lustre data storage system may utilize both flash and hard disk drives and shall meet or

exceed these requirements:

10PB usable (utilizing no compression) using minimum of 1PB flash.

Mounted as a single file system.

Delivered as a complete fully functional turnkey system.

Support a minimum 3500 linux (Rocky 9.1 to 9.7) clients.

Flash shall utilize QLC or TLC NVMe for performance, SED required including any licensing.

Hard Drives shall utilize 7.2K RPM SAS-3 4K HDD drives, SED required including any licensing.

Shall use appropriate solid state storage for metadata.

Support project and user quotas for size and file quantity.

Provide for no single point of failure.

Must include rack, pdus, power cables, rail kit for rack mounting and cable management arms,

system cables, etc...

Provide fully redundant capabilities including but not limited to power supplies, controllers, i/o

modules, network connections, etc...

Must be connected to existing High Speed Network (HSN) that utilizes an infiniband NDR switch

fabric. A minimum of eight connections shall be utilized. Infiniband cables will be provided by

MSU for fabric connection.

Must connect to the existing Management Network (MN) for management functions

Shall support declustered raid or equivalent supporting multiple drive failures.

Shall consist of 2x Controller appliances each supporting a minimum of 2x controllers

(active/active) each supporting multiple vm’s with fail over.

Shall utilize battery backed mirrored cache if applicable.

Shall support hot swap components including but not limited to power supplies, fans, i/o

modules, drives.

Monitoring and alerting:

System must provide alerting and event notification for failed states and for recovery states.

System must provide management via web and/or cli interfaces.

System must provide or software and licenses provided for comprehensive monitoring and/or

visualizing at minimum for these live conditions/parameters: System health, alerts and support

items, capacity available and used for data and metadata, throughput activity, workload

analyzer for top consumers of resources, performance notifications, etc.... System shall provide

a configurable call home function.

Acceptance Testing:

Vendor shall perform or help MSU perform any and all tests to meet the following acceptance

criteria.

Performance Tests:

shall utilize these industry standard benchmarks

sourceforge.net/projects/ior-sio/

www.vi4io.org/io500/run

Minimum performance requirements of delivered storage system.

I/O Rates: average across 5 iteration runs shall meet or exceed.

60GB/sec read

60GB/sec write

Metadata tests: average across 5 iteration runs shall meet or exceed.

200,000 file creates/s

200,000 file removals/s

600,000 file stats/s

500,000 directory stats/s

Failure/Recovery Testing:

Power redundant behavior:

For each rack PDU, one at a time, remove power and check for event notification and continued

operation without interruption. Reconnect PDU, allow system to stabilize, then repeat for each

PDU. No interruption should occur and full recovery should be automatic requiring no user

intervention.

Infiniband link test:

Disconnect one infiniband connection to a controller and check for continued operation,

reconnect and confirm continued operation. Repeat for each infiniband connection.

Disk redundancy:

Remove a single disk from an enclosure and check for event notification and continued

operations. Replace drive and monitor rebuild time and status. Repeat for each enclosure.

Controller redundancy:

Turn off or remove a single controller and check for event notification and continued

operations.

VM test:

Shutdown a single vm and check for continued operations.

Installation/Operating Requirements:

* Storage system shall be installed onsite.

* Rack shall be included. All components must be installed in no more than one rack.

Rack shall be 50U, 28” wide, 48” deep

Rack shall include dual PDUs. PDUs shall utilize 60A 208V IEC309 3P+N+G plugs.

* Storage system shall operate at 208-240 volts and consume no more than 60 amps.

* Storage system shall operate in a data center environment with an average ambient

temperature of 72F. System shall appropriately handle temperature events above this normal

condition such as notifications and automatic shutdown.

Pricing, Delivery, and Installation:

* Pricing shall be valid for 90 days post bid opening date.

*All shipping, delivery, installation, and configuration costs shall be included.

* Delivery time shall be 90 days or less beginning with receipt of order.

* Installation shall be completed within two weeks of delivery

* Storage system shall be installed/configured by vendor utilizing manufacturer’s or vendor’s

employees.

* Vendor shall perform or help MSU perform any and all tests required to meet performance

specifications as stated in this bid.

Warranty and support:

* Storage system and all components provided shall include a five year warranty

* Warranty shall start upon completion of installation and acceptance testing.

* software warranty, licenses, and released software updates shall be included for a minimum

of five years with minimum 7x24 remote support.

* updates to software/firmware must be performed by original manufacturer or by MSU with

manufacturer assistance, either on-site or remote.

* Parts designated as CRU shall be provided next business day for self replacement by MSU.

* Parts designated as FRU shall be provided next business day for replacement by

vendor/manufacturer or MSU at MSU’s discretion.

* Non FRU/CRU parts shall be replaced by manufacturer next business day.

General:

*All equipment is intended to be used as a single system and must work together accordingly.

Therefore, partial bids will not be accepted

*All equipment must be new, sold by authorized vendors of the manufacturers and include

original manufacturer’s warranty

*Vendors should have credible experience with data storage for large scale high performance

systems

*Vendor must provide up to three references upon request of customers using these or similar

products of the manufacturer.

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