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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Davies C (2018) Weak lensing by voids in weak lensing maps in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters

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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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Davies C (2019) The self-similarity of weak lensing peaks 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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Davis T (2019) Evolution of the cold gas properties of simulated post-starburst galaxies in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Davé R (2019) simba: Cosmological simulations with black hole growth and feedback in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Davé R (2020) Galaxy cold gas contents in modern cosmological hydrodynamic simulations in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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De Jong E (2023) Spinning primordial black holes formed during a matter-dominated era in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

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Deason A (2021) Stellar splashback: the edge of the intracluster light in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Deason A (2022) Dwarf stellar haloes: a powerful probe of small-scale galaxy formation and the nature of dark matter in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Deason A (2021) The mass of the Milky Way out to 100 kpc using halo stars 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

 
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