DiRAC-2: Recurrent Costs for Complexity@DiRAC Cluster at University of Leicester
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Leicester
Department Name: Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
This award is for the recurrent costs of Complexity@DiRAC cluster at the the University of Leicester. It will cover electricity costs, support staff costs of the cluster which is part of the DiRAC-2 national facility.
Planned Impact
The pathways to impact for the project are as agreed at the DiRAC PMB meeting on 21 November 2011 and subsequently reported on in the annual reports of the facility.
The high-performance computing applications supported by DiRAC typically involve new algorithms and implementations optimised for high energy efficiency which impose demands on computer architectures that the computing industry has found useful for hardware and system software design and testing.
DiRAC researchers have on-going collaborations with computing companies that maintain this strong connection between the scientific goals of the DiRAC Consortium and the development of new computing technologies that drive the commercial high-performance computing market, with economic benefits to the companies involved and more powerful computing capabilities available to other application areas including many that address socio-economic challenges.
Boyle (University of Edinburgh) co-designed the Blue-Gene/Q compute chip with IBM. This is now deployed in 1.3 Pflop/s systems at Edinburgh and Daresbury and 15 other sites in the world, including the world's largest system at Lawrence Livermore Labs. This is the greenest HPC architecture in the world and offers a route to cheap affordable petascale and exascale computing that will have profound effects on Energy, Health, Environment and Security sectors.
Boyle and IBM have 4 US patents pending resulting from the Blue Gene/Q chip set design project with IBM. Boyle was a co-author of IBM's Gauss Award winning paper at the International Supercomputing conference and has co-authored IEEE and IBM Journal papers on the Blue Gene/Q architecture with IBM.
Falle (Leeds University) partially developed the MG code on DiRAC. This has been used in the National Grid COOLTRANS project to model dispersion of CO2 from high pressure pipelines carrying CO2 for carbon sequestration.
At UCL, a virtual quantum laboratory suite has been created by the UCL spinout firm, QUANTEMOL. It has application in industry, energy, health and environmental monitoring.
Calleja (Cambridge University) is using DiRAC to work with Xyratex, the UK's leading disk manufacturer, to develop the fastest storage arrays in the world.
The COSMOS consortium (Shellard) has had a long-standing collaboration with SGI (since 1997) and with Intel (since 2003) which has allowed access to leading-edge shared-memory technologies, inlcuding the world's first UV2000 in 2012, which was also the first SMP system enabled with Intel Phi (KnightsCorner) processors. Adaptive Computing are using the COSMOS@DiRAC platform to develop a single-image version of their MOAB HPC Suite.
The high-performance computing applications supported by DiRAC typically involve new algorithms and implementations optimised for high energy efficiency which impose demands on computer architectures that the computing industry has found useful for hardware and system software design and testing.
DiRAC researchers have on-going collaborations with computing companies that maintain this strong connection between the scientific goals of the DiRAC Consortium and the development of new computing technologies that drive the commercial high-performance computing market, with economic benefits to the companies involved and more powerful computing capabilities available to other application areas including many that address socio-economic challenges.
Boyle (University of Edinburgh) co-designed the Blue-Gene/Q compute chip with IBM. This is now deployed in 1.3 Pflop/s systems at Edinburgh and Daresbury and 15 other sites in the world, including the world's largest system at Lawrence Livermore Labs. This is the greenest HPC architecture in the world and offers a route to cheap affordable petascale and exascale computing that will have profound effects on Energy, Health, Environment and Security sectors.
Boyle and IBM have 4 US patents pending resulting from the Blue Gene/Q chip set design project with IBM. Boyle was a co-author of IBM's Gauss Award winning paper at the International Supercomputing conference and has co-authored IEEE and IBM Journal papers on the Blue Gene/Q architecture with IBM.
Falle (Leeds University) partially developed the MG code on DiRAC. This has been used in the National Grid COOLTRANS project to model dispersion of CO2 from high pressure pipelines carrying CO2 for carbon sequestration.
At UCL, a virtual quantum laboratory suite has been created by the UCL spinout firm, QUANTEMOL. It has application in industry, energy, health and environmental monitoring.
Calleja (Cambridge University) is using DiRAC to work with Xyratex, the UK's leading disk manufacturer, to develop the fastest storage arrays in the world.
The COSMOS consortium (Shellard) has had a long-standing collaboration with SGI (since 1997) and with Intel (since 2003) which has allowed access to leading-edge shared-memory technologies, inlcuding the world's first UV2000 in 2012, which was also the first SMP system enabled with Intel Phi (KnightsCorner) processors. Adaptive Computing are using the COSMOS@DiRAC platform to develop a single-image version of their MOAB HPC Suite.
Publications
Khouri T
(2013)
The wind of W Hydrae as seen by Herschel I. The CO envelope?
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Matsuura M
(2013)
Herschel SPIRE and PACS observations of the red supergiant VY CMa: analysis of the molecular line spectra?
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Dhanoa H
(2014)
Pressure-driven fragmentation of multiphase clouds at high redshift
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Costa T
(2014)
The environment of bright QSOs at z ~ 6: star-forming galaxies and X-ray emission
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Dhanoa H
(2014)
Pressure-driven fragmentation of multiphase clouds at high redshift
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Dunhill A
(2014)
Misaligned accretion on to supermassive black hole binaries
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Zubovas K
(2014)
Energy- and momentum-conserving AGN feedback outflows
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Hands T
(2014)
Understanding the assembly of Kepler's compact planetary systems
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Yates J
(2014)
Response of the Jovian thermosphere to a transient 'pulse' in solar wind pressure
in Planetary and Space Science
Bourne M
(2014)
Black hole feedback in a multiphase interstellar medium
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Hands T
(2014)
Understanding the assembly of Kepler's compact planetary systems
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bisbas T
(2014)
A photodissociation region study of NGC 4038
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Hague P
(2014)
Dark matter in disc galaxies - II. Density profiles as constraints on feedback scenarios
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Caswell J. L.
(2014)
VizieR Online Data Catalog: 6-GHz methanol multibeam maser catalogue (Caswell+, 2010-12)
in VizieR Online Data Catalog
Khouri T
(2014)
The wind of W Hydrae as seen by Herschel II. The molecular envelope of W Hydrae?
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Antoja T
(2014)
Constraints on the Galactic bar from the Hercules stream as traced with RAVE across the Galaxy
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Richards A
(2014)
ALMA sub-mm maser and dust distribution of VY Canis Majoris
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Dunhill A
(2014)
Misaligned accretion on to supermassive black hole binaries
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Belokurov V
(2014)
Precession of the Sagittarius stream
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bisbas T
(2014)
A photodissociation region study of NGC 4038
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Louvet F
(2014)
The W43-MM1 mini-starburst ridge, a test for star formation efficiency models
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Kimm T
(2014)
ESCAPE FRACTION OF IONIZING PHOTONS DURING REIONIZATION: EFFECTS DUE TO SUPERNOVA FEEDBACK AND RUNAWAY OB STARS
in The Astrophysical Journal
Costa T
(2014)
Feedback from active galactic nuclei: energy- versus momentum-driving
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Dehnen W
(2014)
A fast multipole method for stellar dynamics
in Computational Astrophysics and Cosmology
Aly H
(2015)
Misaligned gas discs around eccentric black hole binaries and implications for the final-parsec problem
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Welker Charlotte
(2015)
Caught in the rhythm: how satellites settle into a plane around their central galaxy
in arXiv e-prints
Bisbas T
(2015)
torus-3dpdr: a self-consistent code treating three-dimensional photoionization and photodissociation regions
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Nayakshin S
(2015)
Tidal Downsizing model - III. Planets from sub-Earths to brown dwarfs: structure and metallicity preferences
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Karl S
(2015)
Dynamical evolution of massive black holes in galactic-scale N -body simulations - introducing the regularized tree code 'rvine'
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Pontzen Andrew
(2015)
Inverted initial conditions: exploring the growth of cosmic structure and voids
in ArXiv e-prints
Keating L
(2015)
Probing the end of reionization with the near zones of z ? 6 QSOs
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Duarte-Cabral A
(2015)
Synthetic CO, H2 and H i surveys of the second galactic quadrant, and the properties of molecular gas
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Chardin J
(2015)
Calibrating cosmological radiative transfer simulations with Ly a forest data: evidence for large spatial UV background fluctuations at z ~ 5.6-5.8 due to rare bright sources
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Dobbs C
(2015)
The frequency and nature of 'cloud-cloud collisions' in galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Aly H
(2015)
Misaligned gas discs around eccentric black hole binaries and implications for the final-parsec problem
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Lorén-Aguilar P
(2015)
Two-fluid dust and gas mixtures in smoothed particle hydrodynamics II: an improved semi-implicit approach
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Dunhill A
(2015)
Precession and accretion in circumbinary discs: the case of HD 104237
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Kelly G
(2015)
Mapping CS in starburst galaxies: Disentangling and characterising dense gas
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Sundberg T
(2015)
Properties and origin of subproton-scale magnetic holes in the terrestrial plasma sheet
in Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
Falceta-Gonçalves D
(2015)
The onset of large-scale turbulence in the interstellar medium of spiral galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Rey-Raposo R
(2015)
Are turbulent spheres suitable initial conditions for star-forming clouds?
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Pattle K
(2015)
The JCMT Gould Belt Survey: first results from the SCUBA-2 observations of the Ophiuchus molecular cloud and a virial analysis of its prestellar core population
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Choudhury T
(2015)
Lyman a emitters gone missing: evidence for late reionization?
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Winther H
(2015)
Modified gravity N -body code comparison project
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Lewis B
(2015)
Smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamic simulations of protostellar outflows with misaligned magnetic field and rotation axes
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Buckle J
(2015)
The JCMT Gould Belt Survey: SCUBA-2 observations of circumstellar discs in L 1495
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Hague P
(2015)
THE DEGENERACY OF M33 MASS MODELING AND ITS PHYSICAL IMPLICATIONS
in The Astrophysical Journal
Puchwein E
(2015)
The photoheating of the intergalactic medium in synthesis models of the UV background
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Duarte L
(2015)
Helicity inversion in spherical convection as a means for equatorward dynamo wave propagation
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Booth R
(2015)
Smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations of gas and dust mixtures
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
| Description | Many new discoveries about the formation and evolution of galaxies, star formation, planet formation have been made possible by the award. |
| Exploitation Route | Many international collaborative projects are supported by the HPC resources provided by DiRAC. |
| Sectors | Aerospace Defence and Marine Creative Economy Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Education Manufacturing including Industrial Biotechology Retail Other |
| URL | http://www.dirac.ac.uk |
| Description | Significant co-design project with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, including partnership in the HPE/Arm/Suse Catalyst UK programme. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2017 |
| Sector | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) |
| Impact Types | Societal |
| Description | DiRAC 2.5x Project Office 2017-2020 |
| Amount | £300,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2018 |
| End | 03/2020 |
| Title | Citation analysys and Impact |
| Description | Use of IT to determineacademic impact of eInfrastructure |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Understood emerging trends in DiRAC Science and helped decide the scale and type of IT investments and direct us to develop new technologies |
| URL | http://www.dirac.ac.uk |
| Title | Runaway gas accretion and ALMA observations |
| Description | VizieR online Data Catalogue associated with article published in journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society with title ' ALMA observations require slower Core Accretion runaway growth.' (bibcode: 2019MNRAS.488L..12N) |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/488/L12 |
| Description | Co-design project with Hewlett Packard Enterprise |
| Organisation | Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Technical support and operations costs for running the hardware. Research workflows to test the system performance, and investment of academic time and software engineering time to optimise code for new hardware. Project will explore suitability of hardware for DiRAC workflows and provide feedback to HPE. |
| Collaborator Contribution | In-kind provision of research computing hardware. Value is commercially confidential. |
| Impact | As this collaboration is about to commence, there are no outcomes to report at this point. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | DiRAC |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Department | Distributed Research Utilising Advanced Computing |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I am the PI for two research grants for the procurement and running of the Complexity@DiRAC High Performance Computing cluster at the University of Leicester. This cluster is now in active operation as a national HPC facility. |
| Collaborator Contribution | DiRAC is the facility which provides HPC resources for the theoretical astrophysics and particle physics communities within STFC. |
| Impact | The establishment and running of a new HPC cluster at the University of Leicester as part of the DiRAC national facility. |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | Nuclei from Lattice QCD |
| Organisation | RIKEN |
| Department | RIKEN-Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Surrey performed ab initio studies of LQCD-derived nuclear forces |
| Collaborator Contribution | Work by Prof. Hatsuda and collaborators at the iTHEMS and Quantum Hadron Physics Laboratory to provide nuclear forces derived from LQCD |
| Impact | Phys. Rev. C 97, 021303(R) |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | STFC Centres for Doctoral Training in Data Intensive Science |
| Organisation | University of Leicester |
| Department | STFC DiRAC Complexity Cluster (HPC Facility Leicester) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Support for STFC Centres for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Data Intensive Science - DiRAC is a partner in five of the eight of the newly established STFC CDTs, and is actively engaged with them in developing industrial partnerships. DiRAC is also offering placements to CDT students interested in Research Software Engineering roles. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Students to work on interesting technical problems for DiRAC |
| Impact | This is the first year |
| Start Year | 2017 |