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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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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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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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Ereza J (2024) The Uchuu - glam BOSS and eBOSS LRG lightcones: exploring clustering and covariance errors in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Trusov S (2024) The two-point correlation function covariance with fewer mocks in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Santos-Santos I (2023) The Tucana dwarf spheroidal: a distant backsplash galaxy of M31? in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Newton O (2018) The total satellite population of the Milky Way in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Sawala T (2023) The timeless timing argument and the total mass of the Local Group in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters

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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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Benitez-Llambay A (2021) The Tail of Late-forming Dwarf Galaxies in ?CDM in The Astrophysical Journal Letters

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Shao S (2021) The survival of globular clusters in a cuspy Fornax in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Robertson A (2021) The surprising accuracy of isothermal Jeans modelling of self-interacting dark matter density profiles in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Aumer M (2017) The structural evolution of galaxies with both thin and thick discs in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Welsh L (2021) The stochastic enrichment of Population II stars in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Bate M (2023) The statistical properties of stars at redshift, z  = 5, compared with the present epoch in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Gu Q (2022) The spatial distribution of satellites in galaxy clusters 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

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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

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Sawala T (2022) The SIBELIUS Project: E Pluribus Unum in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Davies C (2019) The self-similarity of weak lensing peaks in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Cautun M (2018) The Santiago-Harvard-Edinburgh-Durham void comparison - I. SHEDding light on chameleon gravity tests in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Herrington N (2023) The role of previous generations of stars in triggering star formation and driving gas dynamics in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Hillier A (2023) The role of cooling induced by mixing in the mass and energy cycles of the solar atmosphere 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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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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Exploitation Route See Dirac annual report https://dirac.ac.uk
Sectors Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software)

Education

URL https://dirac.ac.uk