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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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Li N (2020) The impact of line-of-sight structures on measuring $H_0$ with strong lensing time-delays

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Glowacki M (2020) The redshift evolution of the baryonic Tully-Fisher relation in Simba

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Kukstas E (2020) Environment from cross-correlations: connecting hot gas and the quenching of galaxies in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Ploeckinger S (2020) Radiative cooling rates, ion fractions, molecule abundances and line emissivities including self-shielding and both local and metagalactic radiation fields

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Becker C (2020) Proca-stinated Cosmology I: A N-body code for the vector Galileon

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Glowacki M (2020) The baryonic Tully-Fisher relation in the simba simulation in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Pfeifer S (2020) The BAHAMAS project: effects of dynamical dark energy on large-scale structure in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Sykes C (2020) Determining the primordial helium abundance and UV background using fluorescent emission in star-free dark matter haloes in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Borrow J (2020) Cosmological baryon transfer in the simba simulations in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Wijers N (2020) The warm-hot circumgalactic medium around EAGLE-simulation galaxies and its detection prospects with X-ray and UV line absorption

 
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