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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Errani R (2021) The asymptotic tidal remnants of cold dark matter subhaloes in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Katz H (2018) A Census of the LyC photons that form the UV background during reionization in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Errani R (2022) Structure and kinematics of tidally limited satellite galaxies in LCDM in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Regan J (2018) Rise of the first supermassive stars in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Pearce F (2021) Redshift evolution of the hot intracluster gas metallicity in the C-EAGLE cluster simulations in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Dillamore A (2022) Merger-induced galaxy transformations in the artemis simulations in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Ruiz-Macias O (2021) Characterizing the target selection pipeline for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Bright Galaxy Survey in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Bosman S (2022) Hydrogen reionization ends by z = 5.3: Lyman-a optical depth measured by the XQR-30 sample in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Wu X (2020) Photometric properties of reionization-epoch galaxies in the simba simulations in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Smith G (2020) The distribution of dark matter and gas spanning 6 Mpc around the post-merger galaxy cluster MS 0451-03 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