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
Forzano N
(2023)
Lattice studies of Sp(2N) gauge theories using GRID
Fossati M
(2021)
MUSE analysis of gas around galaxies (MAGG) - III. The gas and galaxy environment of z = 3-4.5 quasars
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Foster C
(2021)
The MAGPI survey: Science goals, design, observing strategy, early results and theoretical framework
in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
Fowlie A
(2022)
Nested Sampling for Frequentist Computation: Fast Estimation of Small p-Values.
in Physical review letters
Fragkoudi F
(2025)
Bar formation and evolution in the cosmological context: inputs from the Auriga simulations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
França T
(2023)
Binary Black Holes in Modified Gravity
Fu B
(2024)
Testing realistic SO(10) SUSY GUTs with proton decay and gravitational waves
in Physical Review D
Fu B
(2022)
A predictive and testable unified theory of fermion masses, mixing and leptogenesis
in Journal of High Energy Physics
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