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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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Scott L (2021) Convective core entrainment in 1D main-sequence stellar models in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Zheng Y (2021) Rapidly quenched galaxies in the Simba cosmological simulation and observations

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Allanson O (2021) Electron Diffusion and Advection During Nonlinear Interactions With Whistler-Mode Waves in Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

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Hamilton E (2021) The final twist: A model of gravitational waves from precessing black-hole binaries through merger and ringdown

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Drach V (2021) Scattering of Goldstone bosons and resonance production in a composite Higgs model on the lattice in Journal of High Energy Physics

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Ali A (2021) The growth of H ii regions around massive stars: the role of metallicity and dust in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Borrow J (2021) Inconsistencies arising from the coupling of galaxy formation sub-grid models to pressure-smoothed particle hydrodynamics in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Mellor T (2021) Artificial Symmetries for Calculating Vibrational Energies of Linear Molecules in Symmetry

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Porth L (2021) Fast estimation of aperture mass statistics II: Detectability of higher order statistics in current and future surveys

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Agudelo Rueda J (2021) Three-dimensional magnetic reconnection in particle-in-cell simulations of anisotropic plasma turbulence in Journal of Plasma Physics

 
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