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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Huško F (2022) Statistics of galaxy mergers: bridging the gap between theory and observation in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Ali A (2023) Star cluster formation and feedback in different environments of a Milky Way-like galaxy in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Morello G (2023) Spitzer thermal phase curve of WASP-121 b in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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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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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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Smith A (2022) Solving small-scale clustering problems in approximate light-cone mocks in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Chan T (2021) Smoothed particle radiation hydrodynamics: two-moment method with local Eddington tensor closure in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Bennett E (2024) Singlets in gauge theories with fundamental matter in Physical Review D

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Trotta D (2022) Single-spacecraft techniques for shock parameters estimation: A systematic approach in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

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Tress R (2020) Simulations of the star-forming molecular gas in an interacting M51-like galaxy in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Sormani M (2020) Simulations of the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone - II. Star formation in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Tress R (2020) Simulations of the Milky Way's central molecular zone - I. Gas dynamics in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Talbot R (2024) Simulations of spin-driven AGN jets in gas-rich galaxy mergers in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Chaikin E (2022) Simulations of 60Fe entrained in ejecta from a near-Earth supernova: effects of observer motion in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Lovell M (2019) Simulating the Dark Matter Decay Signal from the Perseus Galaxy Cluster in The Astrophysical Journal Letters

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Arnold C (2019) Simulating galaxy formation in f(R) modified gravity: matter, halo, and galaxy statistics 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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