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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Reid J (2021) Linking computational models to follow the evolution of heated coronal plasma in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Scott L (2021) Convective core entrainment in 1D main-sequence stellar models in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Mitchell M (2021) The impact of modified gravity on the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Elbers W (2021) An optimal non-linear method for simulating relic neutrinos in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Pontzen A (2021) EDGE: a new approach to suppressing numerical diffusion in adaptive mesh simulations of galaxy formation 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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Chaikin E (2022) Simulations of 60Fe entrained in ejecta from a near-Earth supernova: effects of observer motion in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Hellinger P (2022) Ion-scale Transition of Plasma Turbulence: Pressure-Strain Effect in The Astrophysical Journal

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Hernández-Aguayo C (2022) Fast full N-body simulations of generic modified gravity: derivative coupling models in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

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Givans J (2022) Non-linearities in the Lyman-a forest and in its cross-correlation with dark matter halos in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

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Mitchell P (2022) How gas flows shape the stellar-halo mass relation in the eagle simulation 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