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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Semenov M (2021) Rovibronic spectroscopy of PN from first principles. in Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP

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Scott L (2021) Convective core entrainment in 1D main-sequence stellar models in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Schönrich R (2017) Assessing distances and consistency of kinematics in Gaia/TGAS 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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Schwinn J (2018) Uncovering substructure with wavelets:proof of concept using Abell 2744 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Schirra A (2021) Bringing faint active galactic nuclei (AGNs) to light: a view from large-scale cosmological simulations in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Schaller M (2024) On the anisotropic distribution of clusters in the local Universe in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters

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Sawala T (2021) Setting the stage: structures from Gaussian random fields in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Sawala T (2022) The SIBELIUS Project: E Pluribus Unum in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Sawala T (2023) The timeless timing argument and the total mass of the Local Group in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters

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Santos-Santos I (2022) Satellite mass functions and the faint end of the galaxy mass-halo mass relation in LCDM in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Santos-Santos I (2020) Baryonic clues to the puzzling diversity of dwarf galaxy rotation curves 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