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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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Grove C (2022) The DESI N -body simulation project - I. Testing the robustness of simulations for the DESI dark time survey in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Grove C (2021) The DESI $N$-body Simulation Project I: Testing the Robustness of Simulations for the DESI Dark Time Survey

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Mason D (2023) The deconfinement phase transition in $Sp(2N)$ gauge theories and the density of states method

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Mercier W (2024) The COSMOS-Web ring: In-depth characterization of an Einstein ring lensing system at z ~ 2 in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Pereira-Wilson M (2023) The cosmic UV background and the beginning and end of star formation in simulated field dwarf galaxies in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Baes M (2019) The cosmic spectral energy distribution in the EAGLE simulation in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Khrykin I (2024) The cosmic baryon partition between the IGM and CGM in the SIMBA simulations in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Ganeshaiah Veena P (2019) The Cosmic Ballet II: spin alignment of galaxies and haloes with large-scale filaments in the EAGLE simulation in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Veena P (2019) The Cosmic Ballet II: Spin alignment of galaxies and haloes with large-scale filaments in the EAGLE simulation

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Baxter E (2021) The correlation of high-redshift galaxies with the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect traces reionization 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