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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Appleby S (2023) The physical nature of circumgalactic medium absorbers in Simba in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Monaco P (2020) The accuracy of weak lensing simulations in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Negri A (2022) The luminosity of cluster galaxies in the Cluster-EAGLE simulations in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Cataneo M (2022) The matter density PDF for modified gravity and dark energy with Large Deviations Theory in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Costa T (2018) Driving gas shells with radiation pressure on dust in radiation-hydrodynamic simulations in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Simpson C (2020) The milky way total mass profile as inferred from Gaia DR2 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Bate M (2023) The statistical properties of stars at redshift, z  = 5, compared with the present epoch in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Hadzhiyska B (2023) The MillenniumTNG Project: an improved two-halo model for the galaxy-halo connection of red and blue galaxies in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Pontzen A (2021) EDGE: a new approach to suppressing numerical diffusion in adaptive mesh simulations of galaxy formation in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Forouhar Moreno V (2022) Baryon-driven decontraction in Milky Way-mass haloes in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Wang W (2017) What to expect from dynamical modelling of galactic haloes in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Barmentloo S (2023) Determining satellite infall times using machine learning in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Bahé Y (2021) Strongly lensed cluster substructures are not in tension with ?CDM in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Lovell C (2023) First light and reionisation epoch simulations (FLARES) - VIII. The emergence of passive galaxies at z = 5 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Hernández-Aguayo C (2023) The MillenniumTNG Project: high-precision predictions for matter clustering and halo statistics in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Rizzuti F (2023) 3D stellar evolution: hydrodynamic simulations of a complete burning phase in a massive star in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Koudmani S (2019) Fast and energetic AGN-driven outflows in simulated dwarf galaxies in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Wilkins S (2023) First light and reionization epoch simulations (FLARES) XI: [O iii ] emitting galaxies at 5 < z < 10 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

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