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.
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.
Organisations
Publications
Mitchell P
(2018)
Comparing galaxy formation in semi-analytic models and hydrodynamical simulations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Poci A
(2022)
Comparing lensing and stellar orbital models of a nearby massive strong-lens galaxy
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bolton JS
(2022)
Comparison of Low-Redshift Lyman-a Forest Observations to Hydrodynamical Simulations with Dark Photon Dark Matter.
in Physical review letters
Goldstraw E
(2018)
Comparison of methods for modelling coronal magnetic fields
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Theuns T
(2021)
Connecting cosmological accretion to strong Ly a absorbers
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Brown S
(2020)
Connecting the structure of dark matter haloes to the primordial power spectrum
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Kegerreis J
(2018)
Consequences of Giant Impacts on Early Uranus for Rotation, Internal Structure, Debris, and Atmospheric Erosion
in The Astrophysical Journal
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Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education |
URL | https://dirac.ac.uk |