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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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Armijo J (2018) Testing modified gravity using a marked correlation function in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Roper W (2020) MEGA: Merger graphs of structure formation in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Nicholson B (2024) HD152843 b & c: the masses and orbital periods of a sub-Neptune and a superpuff Neptune in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Rodríguez Montero F (2019) Mergers, starbursts, and quenching in the simba simulation in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Baxter E (2021) The correlation of high-redshift galaxies with the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect traces reionization in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Pontzen A (2021) EDGE: a new approach to suppressing numerical diffusion in adaptive mesh simulations of galaxy formation in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Smith M (2019) Cosmological simulations of dwarfs: the need for ISM physics beyond SN feedback alone in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Keating L (2020) Constraining the second half of reionization with the Ly ß forest in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Nightingale J (2024) Scanning for dark matter subhaloes in Hubble Space Telescope imaging of 54 strong lenses in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Rodríguez Montero F (2024) The impact of cosmic rays on the interstellar medium and galactic outflows of Milky Way analogues in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Reid J (2021) Linking computational models to follow the evolution of heated coronal plasma in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Henden N (2019) The redshift evolution of X-ray and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich scaling relations in the fable simulations in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Rizzuti F (2024) Shell mergers in the late stages of massive star evolution: new insight from 3D hydrodynamic simulations in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Rose T (2019) Deep and narrow CO absorption revealing molecular clouds in the Hydra-A brightest cluster galaxy in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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De Ceuster F (2023) Radiative transfer as a Bayesian linear regression problem in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Negri A (2022) The luminosity of cluster galaxies in the Cluster-EAGLE simulations in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Poci A (2022) Comparing lensing and stellar orbital models of a nearby massive strong-lens galaxy in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Kannan R (2023) The MillenniumTNG project: the galaxy population at z = 8 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Katz H (2019) Magnetogenesis at Cosmic Dawn: tracing the origins of cosmic magnetic fields in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Kukstas E (2020) Environment from cross-correlations: connecting hot gas and the quenching of galaxies in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Appleby S (2023) The physical nature of circumgalactic medium absorbers in Simba 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