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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Orkney M (2021) EDGE: two routes to dark matter core formation in ultra-faint dwarfs in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Armitage T (2018) The Cluster-EAGLE project: velocity bias and the velocity dispersion-mass relation of cluster galaxies in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Huško F (2022) Spin-driven jet feedback in idealized simulations of galaxy groups and clusters in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Ramírez-Galeano L (2022) Why most molecular clouds are gravitationally dominated in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Becker G (2021) The mean free path of ionizing photons at 5 < z < 6: evidence for rapid evolution near reionization in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Grand R (2018) Aurigaia: mock Gaia DR2 stellar catalogues from the auriga cosmological simulations in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Smith M (2018) Supernova feedback in numerical simulations of galaxy formation: separating physics from numerics in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Barrera-Hinojosa C (2021) Vector modes in ?CDM: the gravitomagnetic potential in dark matter haloes from relativistic N -body simulations in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Schönrich R (2018) Warp, waves, and wrinkles in the Milky Way 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

URL https://dirac.ac.uk