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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Turner M (2017) A comparison of observed and simulated absorption from H i , C  iv , and Si  iv around z ˜ 2 star-forming galaxies suggests redshift-space distortions are due to inflows in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Gonzalez-Perez V (2017) The host dark matter haloes of [O II] emitters at 0.5 < z < 1.5 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Barnes D (2017) The Cluster-EAGLE project: global properties of simulated clusters with resolved galaxies 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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Newton O (2018) The total satellite population of the Milky Way in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Smith M (2018) Cosmological simulations of dwarfs: the need for ISM physics beyond SN feedback alone

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Knebe A (2018) Cosmic CARNage I: on the calibration of galaxy formation models in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Cowley W (2018) The evolution of the UV-to-mm extragalactic background light: evidence for a top-heavy initial mass function?

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Pagano P (2018) A new technique for observationally derived boundary conditions for space weather in Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate

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Kafle P (2018) Galaxy tagging: photometric redshift refinement and group richness enhancement in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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McAlpine S (2018) The rapid growth phase of supermassive black holes in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Grand R (2018) Aurigaia: mock Gaia DR2 stellar catalogues from the auriga cosmological simulations in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Asquith R (2018) Cosmic CARNage II: the evolution of the galaxy stellar mass function in observations and galaxy formation models in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Pfeffer J (2018) The E-MOSAICS project: simulating the formation and co-evolution of galaxies and their star cluster populations in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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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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Gunawardhana M (2018) Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the signatures of galaxy interactions as viewed from small-scale galaxy clustering in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Barnes L (2018) Galaxy formation efficiency and the multiverse explanation of the cosmological constant with EAGLE simulations in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Camps P (2018) Data Release of UV to Submillimeter Broadband Fluxes for Simulated Galaxies from the EAGLE Project in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

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Leo M (2018) A new smooth- k space filter approach to calculate halo abundances in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

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Weinberger L (2018) Lyman-a emitters gone missing: the different evolution of the bright and faint populations in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Reid J (2018) Coronal energy release by MHD avalanches: continuous driving in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Genina A (2018) The core-cusp problem: a matter of perspective in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Costa T (2018) Quenching star formation with quasar outflows launched by trapped IR radiation in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Tescari E (2018) The SAMI Galaxy Survey: understanding observations of large-scale outflows at low redshift with EAGLE simulations in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Hellwing W (2018) Uneven flows: On cosmic bulk flows, local observers, and gravity in Physical Review D

 
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Sectors Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education
URL https://dirac.ac.uk