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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 C (2021) Reproducing submillimetre galaxy number counts with cosmological hydrodynamic simulations in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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DeGraf C (2021) Morphological evolution of supermassive black hole merger hosts and multimessenger signatures in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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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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Šoltinskí T (2021) The detectability of strong 21 centimetre forest absorbers from the diffuse intergalactic medium in late reionisation models in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Upadhyay A (2021) Star formation histories of Coma Cluster galaxies matched to simulated orbits hint at quenching around first pericenter

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Chan T (2021) Smoothed particle radiation hydrodynamics: two-moment method with local Eddington tensor closure in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Ahad S (2021) The stellar mass function and evolution of the density profile of galaxy clusters from the Hydrangea simulations at 0 < z < 1.5 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Van Loon M (2021) Explaining the scatter in the galaxy mass-metallicity relation with gas flows

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Chakraborty B (2021) Improved V c s determination using precise lattice QCD form factors for D ? K l ? in Physical Review D

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Manera M (2021) Obtaining nonlinear galaxy bias constraints from galaxy-lensing phase differences in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

 
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