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.
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.
Organisations
Publications
Pontzen A
(2021)
EDGE: a new approach to suppressing numerical diffusion in adaptive mesh simulations of galaxy formation
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Poci A
(2022)
Comparing lensing and stellar orbital models of a nearby massive strong-lens galaxy
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Ploeckinger S
(2018)
Tidal dwarf galaxies in cosmological simulations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Ploeckinger S
(2024)
Resolution criteria to avoid artificial clumping in Lagrangian hydrodynamic simulations with a multiphase interstellar medium
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Ploeckinger S
(2020)
Radiative cooling rates, ion fractions, molecule abundances, and line emissivities including self-shielding and both local and metagalactic radiation fields
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Pizzati E
(2024)
Revisiting the extreme clustering of z ˜ 4 quasars with large volume cosmological simulations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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