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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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Young A (2022) Characteristics of small protoplanetary disc warps in kinematic observations in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Evans T (2022) Observing EAGLE galaxies with JWST : predictions for Milky Way progenitors and their building blocks in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Ganeshaiah Veena P (2019) The Cosmic Ballet II: spin alignment of galaxies and haloes with large-scale filaments in the EAGLE simulation in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Armijo J (2024) A new test of gravity - II. Application of marked correlation functions to luminous red galaxy samples in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Mitchell P (2018) Comparing galaxy formation in semi-analytic models and hydrodynamical simulations in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Gonzalez-Perez V (2017) The host dark matter haloes of [O II] emitters at 0.5 < z < 1.5 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Richings A (2022) The effects of local stellar radiation and dust depletion on non-equilibrium interstellar chemistry in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Smith R (2023) On the distribution of the cold neutral medium in galaxy discs 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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Cowell J (2023) Potential signature of a quadrupolar hubble expansion in Pantheon+supernovae 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