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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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Habouzit M (2021) Supermassive black holes in cosmological simulations I: M BH - M ? relation and black hole mass function in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Smith M (2018) Supernova feedback in numerical simulations of galaxy formation: separating physics from numerics in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Kugel R (2022) swift-emulator: A Python package for emulation of simulated scaling relations in Journal of Open Source Software

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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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Stafford S (2021) Testing extensions to ?CDM on small scales with forthcoming cosmic shear surveys in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Stafford S (2021) Testing extensions to ?CDM on small scales with forthcoming cosmic shear surveys in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Hassan S (2020) Testing galaxy formation simulations with damped Lyman-a abundance and metallicity evolution in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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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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He Q (2023) Testing strong lensing subhalo detection with a cosmological simulation in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Tramonte D (2017) Testing the conditional mass function of dark matter haloes against numerical N-body simulations in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Mayes R (2021) Testing the tidal stripping scenario of ultracompact dwarf galaxy formation by using internal properties in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Nobels F (2024) Tests of subgrid models for star formation using simulations of isolated disc galaxies 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