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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Van der Werf P (2020) An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 CLS UDS field: physical properties of 707 sub-millimetre galaxies in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Monaco P (2020) The accuracy of weak lensing simulations in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Srisawat C (2020) MEGA: Merger graphs of structure formation in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Despali G (2020) The lensing properties of subhaloes in massive elliptical galaxies in sterile neutrino cosmologies in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Decataldo D (2020) Shaping the structure of a GMC with radiation and winds in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Benitez-Llambay A (2020) The detailed structure and the onset of galaxy formation in low-mass gaseous dark matter haloes in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Henden N (2020) The baryon content of groups and clusters of galaxies in the FABLE simulations in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Kraljic K (2020) The impact of the connectivity of the cosmic web on the physical properties of galaxies at its nodes in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Pfeifer S (2020) The bahamas project: effects of a running scalar spectral index on large-scale structure in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Vidal J (2020) Efficiency of tidal dissipation in slowly rotating fully convective stars or planets in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Glowacki M (2020) The baryonic Tully-Fisher relation in the simba simulation in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Borrow J (2020) Cosmological baryon transfer in the simba simulations 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