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
Clarke C
(2020)
Forbidden line diagnostics of photoevaporative disc winds
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Clarke P
(2021)
Probing inflation with precision bispectra
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Clemens A
(2016)
Pickup ion processes associated with spacecraft thrusters: Implications for solar probe plus
in Physics of Plasmas
Clough K
(2024)
What no one has seen before: gravitational waveforms from warp drive collapse
in The Open Journal of Astrophysics
Clough K
(2021)
Continuity equations for general matter: applications in numerical relativity
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Clough K
(2019)
Growth of massive scalar hair around a Schwarzschild black hole
in Physical Review D
Codis S
(2015)
Intrinsic alignment of simulated galaxies in the cosmic web: implications for weak lensing surveys
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Coleman G
(2024)
On the properties of free-floating planets originating in circumbinary planetary systems
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Coleman G
(2017)
In situ accretion of gaseous envelopes on to planetary cores embedded in evolving protoplanetary discs
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Coles P
(2019)
ExoMol molecular line lists - XXXV. A rotation-vibration line list for hot ammonia
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Coles PA
(2019)
A variationally computed room temperature line list for AsH3.
in Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP
Collier M
(2024)
Galaxy clustering in modified gravity from full-physics simulations - I. Two-point correlation functions
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Collins GS
(2020)
A steeply-inclined trajectory for the Chicxulub impact.
in Nature communications
Colò G
(2020)
Isoscalar monopole and quadrupole modes in Mo isotopes: Microscopic analysis
in Physics Letters B
Comerford T
(2019)
Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton accretion by binary stars
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Cooke R
(2020)
The ACCELERATION programme: I. Cosmology with the redshift drift
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Cooke R
(2020)
The ACCELERATION programme: I. Cosmology with the redshift drift
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Cooper L
(2020)
$B_c \to B_{s(d)}$ form factors
Correa C
(2019)
The origin of the red-sequence galaxy population in the EAGLE simulation
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Correa C
(2020)
The dependence of the galaxy stellar-to-halo mass relation on galaxy morphology
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
Costa T
(2015)
Fast cold gas in hot AGN outflows
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Costa T
(2014)
Feedback from active galactic nuclei: energy- versus momentum-driving
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Costa T
(2018)
Driving gas shells with radiation pressure on dust in radiation-hydrodynamic simulations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Costa Tiago
(2017)
Quenching star formation with quasar outflows launched by trapped IR radiation
in ArXiv e-prints
Coughlin E
(2022)
Stars Crushed by Black Holes. II. A Physical Model of Adiabatic Compression and Shock Formation in Tidal Disruption Events
in The Astrophysical Journal
Coughlin E
(2015)
VARIABILITY IN TIDAL DISRUPTION EVENTS: GRAVITATIONALLY UNSTABLE STREAMS
in The Astrophysical Journal
Coughlin E
(2015)
Post-periapsis pancakes: sustenance for self-gravity in tidal disruption events
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Coughlin E
(2016)
On the structure of tidally disrupted stellar debris streams
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Coughlin E
(2020)
Variability in Short Gamma-Ray Bursts: Gravitationally Unstable Tidal Tails
in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Coulton W
(2020)
Weak lensing minima and peaks: Cosmological constraints and the impact of baryons
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Creci G
(2020)
Evolution of black hole shadows from superradiance
in Physical Review D
Cristini A
(2019)
Dependence of convective boundary mixing on boundary properties and turbulence strength
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Cuello N
(2019)
Flybys in protoplanetary discs: I. Gas and dust dynamics
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Cuesta-Lazaro C
(2020)
Towards a non-Gaussian model of redshift space distortions
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Cui W
(2021)
The origin of galaxy colour bimodality in the scatter of the stellar-to-halo mass relation
in Nature Astronomy
Cui W
(2024)
The HYENAS project: a prediction for the X-ray undetected galaxy groups
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Cui W
(2016)
nIFTy galaxy cluster simulations - IV. Quantifying the influence of baryons on halo properties
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Cuomo V
(2023)
Testing for relics of past strong buckling events in edge-on galaxies: simulation predictions and data from S4G
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Currie L
(2020)
Convection with misaligned gravity and rotation: simulations and rotating mixing length theory
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Curtis M
(2016)
Resolving flows around black holes: the impact of gas angular momentum
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Curtis M
(2016)
Powerful quasar outflow in a massive disc galaxy at z ~ 5
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Curtis M
(2015)
Resolving flows around black holes: numerical technique and applications
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Czakon M
(2021)
B-hadron production in NNLO QCD: application to LHC t$$ \overline{t} $$ events with leptonic decays
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Czakon M
(2021)
NNLO QCD corrections to leptonic observables in top-quark pair production and decay
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Czakon M
(2021)
NNLO QCD predictions for W+c-jet production at the LHC
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Czakon M
(2021)
Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order Study of Three-Jet Production at the LHC.
in Physical review letters
Czakon M
(2023)
NNLO B-fragmentation fits and their application to $$ t\overline{t} $$ production and decay at the LHC
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Czakon M
(2023)
Infrared-safe flavoured anti-kT jets
in Journal of High Energy Physics
| 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 |