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Applicants must be UK-resident or employed by an STFC-approved overseas organisation. Early-career researchers including postdocs and PhD students are eligible as project lead. Awards computing time, not cash funding.","{\"summary\":\"The STFC DiRAC HPC Facility allocates computing time on high-performance clusters for STFC theory community researchers working in particle physics, nuclear physics, astrophysics, and cosmology. Early-career researchers including postdoctoral fellows and PhD students may apply as project leads. 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