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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Deason A (2022) Dwarf stellar haloes: a powerful probe of small-scale galaxy formation and the nature of dark matter in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Silva HO (2021) Dynamical Descalarization in Binary Black Hole Mergers. in Physical review letters

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Altamura E (2023) EAGLE-like simulation models do not solve the entropy core problem in groups and clusters of 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

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Orkney M (2023) EDGE: the shape of dark matter haloes in the faintest galaxies in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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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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Pagano P (2020) Effect of coronal loop structure on wave heating through phase mixing in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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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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Elliott E (2021) Efficient exploration and calibration of a semi-analytical model of galaxy formation with deep learning in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Ludlow A (2016) Einasto Profiles and the Dark Matter Power Spectrum in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters

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Yachmenev A (2021) Electric quadrupole transitions in carbon dioxide. in The Journal of chemical physics

 
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Sectors Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education

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