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
Šoltinskà T
(2021)
The detectability of strong 21 centimetre forest absorbers from the diffuse intergalactic medium in late reionisation models
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Zucker C
(2019)
Synthetic Large-scale Galactic Filaments: On Their Formation, Physical Properties, and Resemblance to Observations
in The Astrophysical Journal
Zubovas K
(2014)
Energy- and momentum-conserving AGN feedback outflows
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Zubovas K
(2016)
A simple way to improve AGN feedback prescription in SPH simulations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Zhu Y
(2022)
Long Dark Gaps in the Ly ß Forest at z < 6: Evidence of Ultra-late Reionization from XQR-30 Spectra
in The Astrophysical Journal
Zhu Y
(2021)
Chasing the Tail of Cosmic Reionization with Dark Gap Statistics in the Lya Forest over 5 < z < 6
in The Astrophysical Journal
Zheng Y
(2022)
Rapidly quenched galaxies in the Simba cosmological simulation and observations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Zheng H
(2024)
The abundance of dark matter haloes down to Earth mass
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Zheng H
(2024)
The influence of baryons on low-mass haloes
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Zhang Z
(2024)
Disentangling the anisotropic radio sky: Fisher forecasts for 21 cm arrays
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Zhang L
(2022)
VIB5 database with accurate ab initio quantum chemical molecular potential energy surfaces.
in Scientific data
Zhang H
(2022)
Spherical accretion of collisional gas in modified gravity I: self-similar solutions and a new cosmological hydrodynamical code
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Zerbo M
(2024)
Effective yields as tracers of feedback effects on metallicity scaling relations in the EAGLE cosmological simulations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Zenocratti L
(2020)
Correlations between mass, stellar kinematics, and gas metallicity in eagle galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Zenocratti L
(2022)
The origin of correlations between mass, metallicity, and morphology in galaxies from the eagle simulation
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Zavala J
(2019)
Dark Matter Haloes and Subhaloes
in Galaxies
Zarrouk P
(2022)
Preliminary clustering properties of the DESI BGS bright targets using DR9 Legacy Imaging Surveys
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Zarrouk P
(2021)
Baryon acoustic oscillations in the projected cross-correlation function between the eBOSS DR16 quasars and photometric galaxies from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Yurchenko SN
(2020)
Treating linear molecules in calculations of rotation-vibration spectra.
in The Journal of chemical physics
Yurchenko S
(2024)
ExoMol line lists - LX. Molecular line list for the ammonia isotopologue 15NH3
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Yurchenko S
(2024)
ExoMol line lists-LIX. High-temperature line list for N2O
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Yurchenko S
(2020)
ExoMol molecular line lists - XXXVII. Spectra of acetylene
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Yuan Y
(2024)
Lya emission as a sensitive probe of feedback-regulated LyC escape from dwarf galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Young R
(2019)
Simulating Jupiter's weather layer. Part II: Passive ammonia and water cycles
in Icarus
Young R
(2019)
Simulating Jupiter's weather layer. Part I: Jet spin-up in a dry atmosphere
in Icarus
Young R
(2019)
Simulating Jupiter's weather layer. Part II: Passive ammonia and water cycles
in Icarus
Young A
(2019)
Synthetic molecular line observations of the first hydrostatic core from chemical calculations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Young A
(2018)
What can the SEDs of first hydrostatic core candidates reveal about their nature?
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Yip K
(2021)
Peeking inside the Black Box: Interpreting Deep-learning Models for Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrievals
in The Astronomical Journal
Yip K
(2024)
To Sample or Not to Sample: Retrieving Exoplanetary Spectra with Variational Inference and Normalizing Flows
in The Astrophysical Journal
Yip K
(2020)
On the Compatibility of Ground-based and Space-based Data: WASP-96 b, an Example*
in The Astronomical Journal
Ying B
(2019)
First Determination of 2D Speed Distribution within the Bodies of Coronal Mass Ejections with Cross-correlation Analysis
in The Astrophysical Journal
Yates J
(2014)
Response of the Jovian thermosphere to a transient 'pulse' in solar wind pressure
in Planetary and Space Science
Yardley S
(2021)
Simulating the Coronal Evolution of Bipolar Active Regions to Investigate the Formation of Flux Ropes
in Solar Physics
Yang T
(2022)
Understanding the relation between thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich decrement and halo mass using the simba and TNG simulations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Yang H
(2024)
apostle-auriga : effects of stellar feedback subgrid models on the evolution of angular momentum in disc galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Yachmenev A
(2022)
The nuclear-spin-forbidden rovibrational transitions of water from first principles.
in The Journal of chemical physics
Xu W
(2020)
Galaxy properties in the cosmic web of EAGLE simulation
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Wyper P
(2024)
A Model for Flux Rope Formation and Disconnection in Pseudostreamer Coronal Mass Ejections
in The Astrophysical Journal
Wyper P
(2022)
The Imprint of Intermittent Interchange Reconnection on the Solar Wind
in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Wurster J
(2018)
On the origin of magnetic fields in stars
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Wurster J
(2021)
Do we need non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic to model protostellar discs?
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Wurster J
(2019)
Disc formation and fragmentation using radiative non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Wurster J
(2018)
The collapse of a molecular cloud core to stellar densities using radiation non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Wurster J
(2018)
Hall effect-driven formation of gravitationally unstable discs in magnetized molecular cloud cores
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Wurster J
(2019)
There is no magnetic braking catastrophe: low-mass star cluster and protostellar disc formation with non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Wu Y
(2023)
Using planet migration and dust drift to weigh protoplanetary discs
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Wu X
(2020)
Photometric properties of reionization-epoch galaxies in the simba simulations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Woss A
(2019)
b 1 resonance in coupled p ? , p ? scattering from lattice QCD
in Physical Review D
| 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 |