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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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Aurrekoetxea JC (2024) Effect of Wave Dark Matter on Equal Mass Black Hole Mergers. in Physical review letters

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Gourgouliatos K (2019) Nonaxisymmetric Hall instability: A key to understanding magnetars in Physical Review Research

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Deakin T. (2021) Analyzing Reduction Abstraction Capabilities in Proceedings of P3HPC 2021: International Workshop on Performance, Portability and Productivity in HPC, Held in conjunction with SC 2021: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis

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Cristini A (2017) The First 3D Simulations of Carbon Burning in a Massive Star in Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union

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Zhang M (2025) The Three Hundred project: The relationship between the shock and splashback radii of simulated galaxy clusters in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia

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Foster C (2021) The MAGPI survey: Science goals, design, observing strategy, early results and theoretical framework in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia

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Aylett-Bullock J (2021) June: open-source individual-based epidemiology simulation. in Royal Society open science

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Koponen J (2022) Properties of low-lying charmonia and bottomonia from lattice QCD + QED in Suplemento de la Revista Mexicana de Física

 
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