DiRAC (Distributed Research Utilizing Advanced Computing) deployed Atempo Miria in 2018 to protect and manage very large amounts of HPC cosmological data generated by local and remote teams of research scientists. We talked to Dr Alastair Basden, Technical Lead for DiRAC at Durham University, UK....

DiRAC (Distributed Research Utilizing Advanced Computing) is the integrated supercomputing facility for theoretical modeling and HPC-based research in particle physics, astronomy and cosmology and nuclear physics. It is a key part of the infrastructure supporting the UK’s Science and Technology...