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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Tsang Y (2020) Characterising Jupiter's dynamo radius using its magnetic energy spectrum in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

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Tress R (2020) Simulations of the star-forming molecular gas in an interacting M51-like galaxy in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Simpson C (2020) The milky way total mass profile as inferred from Gaia DR2 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Robson D (2020) X-ray emission from hot gas in galaxy groups and clusters in simba in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Ratnasingam R (2020) Two-dimensional simulations of internal gravity waves in the radiation zones of intermediate-mass stars in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Bantilan H (2020) Real-Time Dynamics of Plasma Balls from Holography. in Physical review letters

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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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Poole-McKenzie R (2020) Informing dark matter direct detection limits with the ARTEMIS simulations in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

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Sormani M (2020) Simulations of the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone - II. Star formation in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Font A (2020) The artemis simulations: stellar haloes of Milky Way-mass galaxies in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Becker C (2020) Proca-stinated cosmology. Part I. A N -body code for the vector Galileon in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

 
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Sectors Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education

URL https://dirac.ac.uk