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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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Ruiz-Macias O (2021) Characterizing the target selection pipeline for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Bright Galaxy Survey in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Beane S (2021) Charged multihadron systems in lattice QCD + QED in Physical Review D

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Young A (2021) Chemical signatures of a warped protoplanetary disc in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Vandenbroucke B (2020) CMACIONIZE 2.0: a novel task-based approach to Monte Carlo radiation transfer in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Ananyev V (2023) Collider constraints on electroweakinos in the presence of a light gravitino in The European Physical Journal C

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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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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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Goldstraw E (2018) Comparison of methods for modelling coronal magnetic fields in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Theuns T (2021) Connecting cosmological accretion to strong Ly a absorbers in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Brown S (2020) Connecting the structure of dark matter haloes to the primordial power spectrum in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Lamberts A (2022) Constraining blazar heating with the 2 ? z ? 3 Lyman-a forest 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