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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Ansarinejad B (2023) VST ATLAS galaxy cluster catalogue I: cluster detection and mass calibration in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Piccirillo E (2022) Velocity-dependent annihilation radiation from dark matter subhalos in cosmological simulations in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

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Barrera-Hinojosa C (2021) Vector modes in ?CDM: the gravitomagnetic potential in dark matter haloes from relativistic N -body simulations in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Wu Y (2023) Using planet migration and dust drift to weigh protoplanetary discs in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Sullivan D (2018) Using artificial neural networks to constrain the halo baryon fraction during reionization in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Irodotou D (2021) Using angular momentum maps to detect kinematically distinct galactic components in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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D'Silva J (2023) Unveiling the main sequence of galaxies at z = 5 with the JWST : predictions from simulations in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Richings A (2021) Unravelling the physics of multiphase AGN winds through emission line tracers in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Deason A (2023) Unravelling the mass spectrum of destroyed dwarf galaxies with the metallicity distribution function in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Evstafyeva T (2023) Unequal-mass boson-star binaries: initial data and merger dynamics in Classical and Quantum Gravity

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Schwinn J (2018) Uncovering substructure with wavelets:proof of concept using Abell 2744 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