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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Yankelevich V (2023) The halo bispectrum as a sensitive probe of massive neutrinos and baryon physics in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Brown S (2022) Towards a universal model for the density profiles of dark matter haloes in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Li N (2021) The impact of line-of-sight structures on measuring H 0 with strong lensing time delays in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Mateu C (2017) Predictions for the detection of tidal streams with Gaia using great-circle methods in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Barnes D (2017) The Cluster-EAGLE project: global properties of simulated clusters with resolved galaxies in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Bose S (2023) The progenitor galaxies of stellar haloes as 'failed' Milky Ways in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Mastromarino C (2023) Properties and observables of massive galaxies in self-interacting dark matter cosmologies in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Teyssier R (2020) The loss of the intracluster medium in globular clusters in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Molaro M (2023) Possible evidence for a large-scale enhancement in the Lyman-a forest power spectrum at redshift z = 4 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