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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Owens A (2024) ExoMol line lists - LI. Molecular line lists for lithium hydroxide (LiOH) in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Pagano P (2018) A new technique for observationally derived boundary conditions for space weather in Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate

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Pagano P (2021) Modelling of asymmetric nanojets in coronal loops in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Pagano P (2020) Effect of coronal loop structure on wave heating through phase mixing in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Pagano P (2019) A New Space Weather Tool for Identifying Eruptive Active Regions in The Astrophysical Journal

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Pagano P (2020) Hydrogen non-equilibrium ionisation effects in coronal mass ejections in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Pakmor R (2024) Magnetic field amplification in cosmological zoom simulations from dwarf galaxies to galaxy groups 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