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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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Ashworth G (2017) Exploring the IMF of star clusters: a joint SLUG and LEGUS effort in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Appleby S (2020) The impact of quenching on galaxy profiles in the simba simulation in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Igoshev A (2023) Three-dimensional magnetothermal evolution of off-centred dipole magnetic field configurations in neutron stars 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 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Choustikov N (2024) The great escape: understanding the connection between Ly a emission and LyC escape in simulated JWST analogues in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Sormani M (2020) Simulations of the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone - II. Star formation in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Zheng H (2024) The influence of baryons on low-mass haloes in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Mocz P (2023) Cosmological structure formation and soliton phase transition in fuzzy dark matter with axion self-interactions in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Cao K (2021) Studying galaxy cluster morphological metrics with mock-X in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Koudmani S (2022) Two can play at that game: constraining the role of supernova and AGN feedback in dwarf galaxies with cosmological zoom-in simulations 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