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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Curtis-Lake E (2023) The epoch of galaxy quenching in Nature Astronomy

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Elbakyan V (2023) Episodic accretion and mergers during growth of massive protostars in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Appleby S (2023) Mapping circumgalactic medium observations to theory using machine learning in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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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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Young A (2023) On the conditions for warping and breaking protoplanetary discs in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Betts J (2023) Machine learning and structure formation in modified gravity in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Huško F (2023) Active galactic nuclei jets simulated with smoothed particle hydrodynamics in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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De Jong E (2023) Spinning primordial black holes formed during a matter-dominated era in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

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Barrera M (2023) The MillenniumTNG Project: semi-analytic galaxy formation models on the past lightcone in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Daley-Yates S (2023) Heating and cooling in stellar coronae: coronal rain on a young Sun in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Altamura E (2023) EAGLE-like simulation models do not solve the entropy core problem in groups and clusters of galaxies in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Belokurov V (2023) Energy wrinkles and phase-space folds of the last major merger 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