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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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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Prole L (2022) Fragmentation-induced starvation in Population III star formation: a resolution study in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Barrera-Hinojosa C (2022) Looking for a twist: probing the cosmological gravitomagnetic effect via weak lensing-kSZ cross-correlations in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Beckett A (2021) The relationship between gas and galaxies at z  < 1 using the Q0107 quasar triplet in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Koudmani S (2021) A little FABLE: exploring AGN feedback in dwarf galaxies with cosmological simulations in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Tramonte D (2017) Testing the conditional mass function of dark matter haloes against numerical N-body 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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Exploitation Route See Dirac annual report https://dirac.ac.uk
Sectors Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education

URL https://dirac.ac.uk