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.
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.
Organisations
Publications
Falck B
(2021)
Indra: a public computationally accessible suite of cosmological N -body simulations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Porth L
(2021)
The Information Content of Projected Galaxy Fields
Nightingale J
(2021)
PyAutoLens: Open-Source Strong Gravitational Lensing
Gray A
(2021)
Uncertainty Propagation in SINBAD Fusion Benchmarks with Total Monte Carlo and Imprecise Probabilities
in Fusion Science and Technology
Yardley S
(2021)
Simulating the Coronal Evolution of Bipolar Active Regions to Investigate the Formation of Flux Ropes
in Solar Physics
Robertson A
(2021)
The surprising accuracy of isothermal Jeans modelling of self-interacting dark matter density profiles
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 |