High Performance Computing/Ceph-based data storage

The University of Chicago (“UNIVERSITY”) is seeking proposals from qualified suppliers of high-performance computing (HPC) systems (“Vendors”) through this Request For Proposal (“RFP”). The University of Chicago Research Computing Center (RCC) is considering a single major purchase to acquire secure, dependable, and expandable data storage based on the Ceph storage management framework and the Kubernetes container orchestration platform, associated peripherals and software. The present document describes the RFP process and requirements for this proposed storage purchase.