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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Salcido J (2020) How feedback shapes galaxies: an analytic model in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Appleby S (2020) The impact of quenching on galaxy profiles in the simba simulation in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Lamberts A (2022) Constraining blazar heating with the 2 ? z ? 3 Lyman-a forest in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Towler I (2023) Gas clumping and its effect on hydrostatic bias in the MACSIS simulations in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Elbers W (2021) An optimal non-linear method for simulating relic neutrinos in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Rose T (2019) Deep and narrow CO absorption revealing molecular clouds in the Hydra-A brightest cluster galaxy 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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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

 
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