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
Leo M
(2018)
Nonlinear growth of structure in cosmologies with damped matter fluctuations
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Pagano P
(2018)
Contribution of phase-mixing of Alfvén waves to coronal heating in multi-harmonic loop oscillations
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
He Q
(2018)
Globular clusters vs dark matter haloes in strong lensing observations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Peters A
(2018)
Supercluster simulations: impact of baryons on the matter power spectrum and weak lensing forecasts for Super-CLASS
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Armitage T
(2018)
The Cluster-EAGLE project: velocity bias and the velocity dispersion-mass relation of cluster galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Grand R
(2018)
Aurigaia: mock Gaia DR2 stellar catalogues from the auriga cosmological simulations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Smith M
(2018)
Supernova feedback in numerical simulations of galaxy formation: separating physics from numerics
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Schönrich R
(2018)
Warp, waves, and wrinkles in the Milky Way
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Cooke R
(2018)
Measurement of the primordial helium abundance from the intergalactic medium
in Nature Astronomy
Reid J
(2018)
Coronal energy release by MHD avalanches: continuous driving
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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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 |