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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Talbot R (2021) Blandford-Znajek jets in galaxy formation simulations: method and implementation in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Schirra A (2021) Bringing faint active galactic nuclei (AGNs) to light: a view from large-scale cosmological simulations in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Hernández-Aguayo C (2021) Building a digital twin of a luminous red galaxy spectroscopic survey: galaxy properties and clustering covariance in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Font A (2021) Can cosmological simulations capture the diverse satellite populations of observed Milky Way analogues? in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Sharma M (2018) CEMPlifying reionization in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Barnes D (2021) Characterizing hydrostatic mass bias with mock-X in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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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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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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Davies C (2021) Constraining cosmology with weak lensing voids in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Keating L (2020) Constraining the second half of reionization with the Ly ß forest in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Mayes R (2021) Contribution of stripped nuclei to the ultracompact dwarf galaxy population in the Virgo cluster in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Scott L (2021) Convective core entrainment in 1D main-sequence stellar models 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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Smith A (2019) Correcting for fibre assignment incompleteness in the DESI Bright Galaxy Survey in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Theuns T (2020) Correlations between mass, stellar kinematics, and gas metallicity in eagle galaxies in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters

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Ganeshaiah Veena P (2021) Cosmic Ballet III: Halo spin evolution in the cosmic web in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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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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Borrow J (2020) Cosmological baryon transfer in the simba simulations in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Smith M (2019) Cosmological simulations of dwarfs: the need for ISM physics beyond SN feedback alone in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Davies C (2019) Cosmological test of gravity using weak lensing voids in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Rose T (2019) Deep and narrow CO absorption revealing molecular clouds in the Hydra-A brightest cluster galaxy in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Cristini A (2019) Dependence of convective boundary mixing on boundary properties and turbulence strength in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Fumagalli M (2020) Detecting neutral hydrogen at z ? 3 in large spectroscopic surveys of quasars in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Barmentloo S (2023) Determining satellite infall times using machine learning 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