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
McAlpine S
(2019)
The nature of submillimetre and highly star-forming galaxies in the EAGLE simulation
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
McAlpine S
(2022)
SIBELIUS-DARK: a galaxy catalogue of the local volume from a constrained realization simulation
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
McCarthy I
(2020)
The imprint of dark subhaloes on the circumgalactic medium
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
McDonald I
(2015)
ALMA reveals sunburn: CO dissociation around AGB stars in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
McIlroy C
(2018)
Doubly magic nuclei from lattice QCD forces at M PS = 469 MeV / c 2
in Physical Review C
McLean E
(2019)
$B_s\to D^{(*)}_s l\nu$ form factors using heavy HISQ quarks
McLean E
(2019)
Lattice QCD form factor for B s ? D s * l ? at zero recoil with nonperturbative current renormalization
in Physical Review D
McLean E
(2020)
B s ? D s l ? form factors for the full q 2 range from lattice QCD with nonperturbatively normalized currents
in Physical Review D
McNally C
(2017)
Low mass planet migration in magnetically torqued dead zones - I. Static migration torque
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
McNally C
(2019)
Migrating super-Earths in low-viscosity discs: unveiling the roles of feedback, vortices, and laminar accretion flows
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
McNally C
(2019)
Multiplanet systems in inviscid discs can avoid forming resonant chains
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Meiksin A
(2017)
Gas around galaxy haloes - III: hydrogen absorption signatures around galaxies and QSOs in the Sherwood simulation suite
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Mellor T
(2021)
Artificial Symmetries for Calculating Vibrational Energies of Linear Molecules
in Symmetry
Mellor T
(2019)
Transformation Properties under the Operations of the Molecular Symmetry Groups G36 and G36(EM) of Ethane H3CCH3
in Symmetry
Mercer A
(2020)
Planet formation around M dwarfs via disc instability Fragmentation conditions and protoplanet properties
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Merrow A
(2024)
Did the Gaia Enceladus/Sausage merger form the Milky Way's bar?
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Merson A
(2019)
Linear bias forecasts for emission line cosmological surveys
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Meru F
(2019)
Is the ring inside or outside the planet?: the effect of planet migration on dust rings
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Mickley J
(2025)
Center vortex evidence for a second finite-temperature QCD transition
in Physical Review D
Miles P
(2020)
Fallback Rates from Partial Tidal Disruption Events
in The Astrophysical Journal
Mitchell M
(2021)
The impact of modified gravity on the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Mitchell M
(2022)
A general framework to test gravity using galaxy clusters - VI. Realistic galaxy formation simulations to study clusters in modified gravity
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Mitchell M
(2021)
A general framework to test gravity using galaxy clusters IV: cluster and halo properties in DGP gravity
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Mitchell M
(2019)
A general framework to test gravity using galaxy clusters II: A universal model for the halo concentration in f(R) gravity
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Mitchell M
(2021)
A general framework to test gravity using galaxy clusters - V. A self-consistent pipeline for unbiased constraints of f ( R ) gravity
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Mitchell M
(2021)
A general framework to test gravity using galaxy clusters III: observable-mass scaling relations in f ( R ) gravity
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Mitchell P
(2022)
Baryonic mass budgets for haloes in the eagle simulation, including ejected and prevented gas
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Mitchell P
(2022)
How gas flows shape the stellar-halo mass relation in the eagle simulation
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Mitchell P
(2020)
Galactic outflow rates in the EAGLE simulations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Mitchell P
(2020)
Galactic inflow and wind recycling rates in the eagle simulations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Moews B
(2021)
Hybrid analytic and machine-learned baryonic property insertion into galactic dark matter haloes
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Moliné Á
(2019)
Properties of Subhalos in the Interacting Dark Matter Scenario
in Galaxies
Monachesi A
(2019)
The Auriga stellar haloes: connecting stellar population properties with accretion and merging history
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Monnier J
(2019)
Multiple Spiral Arms in the Disk around Intermediate-mass Binary HD 34700A
in The Astrophysical Journal
Monnier J
(2017)
Polarized Disk Emission from Herbig Ae/Be Stars Observed Using Gemini Planet Imager: HD 144432, HD 150193, HD 163296, and HD 169142
in The Astrophysical Journal
Monnier J
(2019)
Multiple Spiral Arms in the Disk around Intermediate-mass Binary HD 34700A
in The Astrophysical Journal
Montargès M
(2023)
The VLT/SPHERE view of the ATOMIUM cool evolved star sample I. Overview: Sample characterization through polarization analysis
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Morello G
(2023)
Spitzer thermal phase curve of WASP-121 b
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Mougeot M
(2020)
Examining the N = 28 shell closure through high-precision mass measurements of Ar 46 - 48
in Physical Review C
Muia F
(2019)
The fate of dense scalar stars
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Mukherjee S
(2021)
SEAGLE - II. Constraints on feedback models in galaxy formation from massive early-type strong-lens galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Muldrew S
(2015)
What are protoclusters? - Defining high-redshift galaxy clusters and protoclusters
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Murtas G
(2022)
Collisional ionization and recombination effects on coalescence instability in chromospheric partially ionized plasmas
in Physics of Plasmas
Murtas G
(2024)
Kink Instability of Flux Ropes in Partially Ionized Plasmas
in The Astrophysical Journal
Mutter M
(2017)
The role of disc self-gravity in circumbinary planet systems - II. Planet evolution
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Müller B
(2019)
Three-dimensional simulations of neutrino-driven core-collapse supernovae from low-mass single and binary star progenitors
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Naik A
(2019)
Constraints on chameleon f(R)-gravity from galaxy rotation curves of the SPARC sample
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Nasir F
(2017)
The effect of stellar and AGN feedback on the low-redshift Lyman a forest in the Sherwood simulation suite
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 |