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DiRAC-2.5 - the pathway to DiRAC Phase 3

Lead Research Organisation: Durham University
Department Name: Physics

Abstract

We request funding to relocate the Blue Wonder HPC cluster and associated storage, currently at the Hartree Centre at Daresbury, to Durham, together with installation and hardware maintenance costs. This move would enable DiRAC to expand the current DiRAC-2 Data centric service, managed by Durham, by a factor of two in both computing power and data storage capacity. The new service would be called the DiRAC-2.5 Data Centric service.

Planned Impact

DiRAC would seek to continue to engage with industry at various levels, from the
provision of computing cycles for industrial applications to the
exchange of technical knowledge and shared training programmes. The
facility will serve to train young scientists in the most advanced
techniques for supercomputing. These have extensive applications beyond
academia, for example in industry and finance. Finally, output from Dirac-based
projects will be used for science outreach activities.

Publications

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Gunawardhana M (2018) Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the signatures of galaxy interactions as viewed from small-scale galaxy clustering in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Newton O (2018) The total satellite population of the Milky Way in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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He Q (2018) Globular clusters vs dark matter haloes in strong lensing observations in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Bemporad A (2018) Measuring the electron temperatures of coronal mass ejections with future space-based multi-channel coronagraphs: a numerical test in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Smith A (2019) Correcting for fibre assignment incompleteness in the DESI Bright Galaxy Survey in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Cristini A (2019) Dependence of convective boundary mixing on boundary properties and turbulence strength in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Sormani M (2019) The geometry of the gas surrounding the Central Molecular Zone: on the origin of localised molecular clouds with extreme velocity dispersions

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Lara-López M (2019) Oxygen yields as a constraint on feedback processes in galaxies in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Stafford S (2019) The BAHAMAS project: Effects of a running scalar spectral index on large-scale structure

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Koudmani S (2019) Fast and energetic AGN-driven outflows in simulated dwarf galaxies in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

 
Description See Dirac annual report https://dirac.ac.uk
Exploitation Route See Dirac annual report https://dirac.ac.uk
Sectors Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software)

Education
URL https://dirac.ac.uk