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 (2022) Quenching of satellite galaxies of Milky Way analogues: reconciling theory and observations in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Forouhar Moreno V (2022) Baryon-driven decontraction in Milky Way-mass haloes in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Forouhar Moreno V (2022) Galactic satellite systems in CDM, WDM and SIDM in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Fossati M (2021) MUSE analysis of gas around galaxies (MAGG) - III. The gas and galaxy environment of z = 3-4.5 quasars in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Foster C (2021) The MAGPI survey: Science goals, design, observing strategy, early results and theoretical framework in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia

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Fumagalli M (2017) Witnessing galaxy assembly in an extended z˜3 structure 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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Fyfe L (2021) Forward modelling of heating within a coronal arcade in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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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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Ganeshaiah Veena P (2019) The Cosmic Ballet II: spin alignment of galaxies and haloes with large-scale filaments in the EAGLE simulation in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Garzilli A (2021) How to constrain warm dark matter with the Lyman-a forest 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