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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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Christiansen J (2020) Jet feedback and the photon underproduction crisis in simba in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Maunder T (2024) Synthetic light curves and spectra from a self-consistent 2D simulation of an ultra-strippped supernova in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Bahé Y (2021) Strongly lensed cluster substructures are not in tension with ?CDM in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Elliott E (2021) Efficient exploration and calibration of a semi-analytical model of galaxy formation with deep learning in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Fumagalli M (2017) Witnessing galaxy assembly in an extended z˜3 structure in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Koudmani S (2021) A little FABLE: exploring AGN feedback in dwarf galaxies with cosmological simulations in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Barnes D (2021) Characterizing hydrostatic mass bias with mock-X in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Pizzati E (2024) Revisiting the extreme clustering of z ˜ 4 quasars with large volume cosmological simulations in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Bourne M (2019) AGN jet feedback on a moving mesh: lobe energetics and X-ray properties in a realistic cluster environment in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Lacerna I (2018) Galactic conformity measured in semi-analytic models in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Sullivan D (2018) Using artificial neural networks to constrain the halo baryon fraction during reionization in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Mitchell P (2020) Galactic outflow rates in the EAGLE simulations in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Dong-Páez C (2024) The Uchuu-SDSS galaxy light-cones: a clustering, redshift space distortion and baryonic acoustic oscillation study in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Beckett A (2021) The relationship between gas and galaxies at z  < 1 using the Q0107 quasar triplet in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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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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Brooks R (2023) The north-south asymmetry of the ALFALFA H i velocity width function in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Šoltinský T (2023) Probing quasar lifetimes with proximate 21-centimetre absorption in the diffuse intergalactic medium at redshifts z = 6 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Cataneo M (2022) The matter density PDF for modified gravity and dark energy with Large Deviations Theory 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

 
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