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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Helfer T (2022) Malaise and remedy of binary boson-star initial data in Classical and Quantum Gravity

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Appleby S (2023) Mapping circumgalactic medium observations to theory using machine learning in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Robertson A (2020) Mapping dark matter and finding filaments: calibration of lensing analysis techniques on simulated data in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Bartlett D (2023) Marginalised Normal Regression: Unbiased curve fitting in the presence of x-errors in The Open Journal of Astrophysics

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Hernández-Aguayo C (2018) Marked clustering statistics in f(R) gravity cosmologies in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Mellor T (2023) MARVEL analysis of high-resolution spectra of thioformaldehyde (H 2 CS) in Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy

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Jin S (2023) Massive galaxy formation caught in action at z ~ 5 with JWST in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Ali A (2019) Massive star feedback in clusters: variation of the FUV interstellar radiation field in time and space in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Li B (2020) Measuring the baryon acoustic oscillation peak position with different galaxy selections in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Srisawat C (2020) MEGA: Merger graphs of structure formation 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