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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McCarthy I (2023) The FLAMINGO project: revisiting the S 8 tension and the role of baryonic physics in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Santos-Santos I (2020) Baryonic clues to the puzzling diversity of dwarf galaxy rotation curves in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Sullivan D (2018) Using artificial neural networks to constrain the halo baryon fraction during reionization in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Thomas N (2019) Black hole - Galaxy correlations in simba in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Jahns-Schindler J (2023) How limiting is optical follow-up for fast radio burst applications? Forecasts for radio and optical surveys in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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DeGraf C (2021) Morphological evolution of supermassive black hole merger hosts and multimessenger signatures in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Cao K (2021) Studying galaxy cluster morphological metrics with mock-X in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Wang W (2018) What to expect from dynamical modelling of galactic haloes - II. The spherical Jeans equation 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