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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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Lovell M (2021) The spatial distribution of Milky Way satellites, gaps in streams, and the nature of dark matter in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Acuto A (2021) The BAHAMAS project: Evaluating the accuracy of the halo model in predicting the non-linear matter power spectrum

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Ganeshaiah Veena P (2021) Cosmic Ballet III: Halo spin evolution in the cosmic web in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Mitchell M (2021) The impact of modified gravity on the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Stafford S (2021) Testing extensions to ?CDM on small scales with forthcoming cosmic shear surveys in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Santos-Santos I (2021) Magellanic satellites in ?CDM cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of the Local Group in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Font A (2021) Can cosmological simulations capture the diverse satellite populations of observed Milky Way analogues? in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Mitchell P (2021) Baryonic mass budgets for haloes in the EAGLE simulation, including ejected and prevented gas

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Icaza-Lizaola M (2021) A sparse regression approach to modeling the relation between galaxy stellar masses and their host halos

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Vijayan A (2021) First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (FLARES) III: The properties of massive dusty galaxies at cosmic dawn

 
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