DiRAC2: 100 Tflop/s HPC cluster procurement
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Leicester
Department Name: Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
This award covers the capital cost of procuring a 100 Tflop/s HPC cluster to be hosted at University of Leicester as part of the DiRAC2 facility.
Planned Impact
The pathways to impact for the project are as agreed at the DiRAC PMB meeting on 21 November 2011.
Publications
Pratt J
(2020)
Comparison of 2D and 3D compressible convection in a pre-main sequence star
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Pontzen Andrew
(2015)
Inverted initial conditions: exploring the growth of cosmic structure and voids
in ArXiv e-prints
Pontzen A
(2015)
Milking the spherical cow - on aspherical dynamics in spherical coordinates
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Pontzen A
(2018)
TANGOS: The Agile Numerical Galaxy Organization System
in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Pontzen A
(2016)
Inverted initial conditions: Exploring the growth of cosmic structure and voids
in Physical Review D
Pontzen A
(2018)
Tangos: the agile numerical galaxy organization system
Pittard J
(2018)
Colliding stellar winds structure and X-ray emission
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Pinte C
(2020)
Rocking shadows in broken circumbinary discs
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Pimpanuwat B
(2020)
Maser flares driven by variations in pumping and background radiation
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Phillips M
(2020)
A new set of atmosphere and evolution models for cool T-Y brown dwarfs and giant exoplanets
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Pettitt A
(2014)
The morphology of the Milky Way - I. Reconstructing CO maps from simulations in fixed potentials
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Pettitt A
(2015)
The morphology of the Milky Way - II. Reconstructing CO maps from disc galaxies with live stellar distributions
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Petkova M
(2021)
Modelling of ionizing feedback with smoothed particle hydrodynamics and Monte Carlo radiative transfer on a Voronoi grid
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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
Pastore A
(2017)
A new statistical method for the structure of the inner crust of neutron stars
in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
Page B
(2023)
Novel bottomonium results
Page B
(2022)
Novel Bottomonium Results
Owen J
(2020)
Testing exoplanet evaporation with multitransiting systems
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Owen J
(2020)
Massive discs around low-mass stars
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Orkney M
(2023)
EDGE: the shape of dark matter haloes in the faintest galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Orkney M
(2022)
EDGE: the puzzling ellipticity of Eridanus II's star cluster and its implications for dark matter at the heart of an ultra-faint dwarf
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Orkney M
(2023)
EDGE: The shape of dark matter haloes in the faintest galaxies
Orkney M
(2021)
EDGE: two routes to dark matter core formation in ultra-faint dwarfs
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Obreja A
(2014)
The main sequence and the fundamental metallicity relation in MaGICC Galaxies: evolution and scatter
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Norman S
(2021)
Stars Crushed by Black Holes. I. On the Energy Distribution of Stellar Debris in Tidal Disruption Events
in The Astrophysical Journal
Nixon C
(2018)
The origin of the structure of large-scale magnetic fields in disc galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Nixon C
(2019)
What is wrong with steady accretion discs?
Nixon C
(2022)
Stellar Revival and Repeated Flares in Deeply Plunging Tidal Disruption Events
in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Nixon C
(2021)
Accretion discs with non-zero central torque
in New Astronomy
Nixon C
(2020)
Accretion discs with non-zero central torque
Nixon C
(2019)
What is wrong with steady accretion discs?
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Nixon C
(2012)
Broken discs: warp propagation in accretion discs Broken discs
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Nelson RP
(2014)
Planetary system formation in thermally evolving viscous protoplanetary discs.
in Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences
Nelson R
(2023)
Gas accretion onto Jupiter mass planets in discs with laminar accretion flows
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Nelson R
(2013)
Linear and non-linear evolution of the vertical shear instability in accretion discs
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Nealon R
(2020)
Rocking shadows in broken circumbinary discs
Nealon R
(2020)
Spirals, shadows & precession in HD 100453 - II. The hidden companion
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Nealon R
(2022)
The Bardeen-Petterson effect in accreting supermassive black hole binaries: disc breaking and critical obliquity
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Description | Many new results about black holes, galaxy formation and evolution, star formation and evolution have been made possible by the grant. |
Exploitation Route | Many academic collaborations are supported by the HPC resources of DiRAC. |
Sectors | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Financial Services, and Management Consultancy,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology |
URL | http://www.dirac.ac.uk |
Description | The DiRAC facility is being widely used by researchers across the UK. We are working closely with industrial partners to design our future systems - this interaction is expected to lead to collaborative technical projects. A significant fractino of our graduating PhD students have gone into many branches of industry, including aerospace, defence and the games industry. |
First Year Of Impact | 2012 |
Sector | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education |
Impact Types | Economic,Policy & public services |
Description | DiRAC2: Recurrent Costs for 100 Tflop/s HPC cluster |
Amount | £391,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ST/K003259/1 |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 05/2012 |
End | 01/2016 |
Description | Royal Astronomical Society's Undergraduate Research Bursary |
Amount | £1,200 (GBP) |
Organisation | Royal Astronomical Society |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 06/2014 |
End | 08/2014 |
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 | Astronomy Ireland |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | I spoke to about 100 people at the Astronomy Ireland meeting in November 2013 in Trinity College Dublin. My talk was very well received and I have been invited to give another talk to this audience at a later date. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | http://www.astronomy.ie/lecture201311.php |
Description | BBC Stargazing Live |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Presentations as part of the BBC Stargazing Live at the National Space Centre and at the University of Leicester, attended by approximately 50 people (2011), 50 people (2012), 300 people (2013), 100 people (2014). The presentation generated lots of questions and discussion from the audience. Local schools had an opportunity to visit the University which is good for inclusivity. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011,2012,2013,2014 |
Description | Cafe Scientifique |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | I spoke to the Nottingham Cafe Scientifique about various aspects of the research that myself and others are doing with DiRAC. About 40 people attended. I gave a 25 minute presentation which was followed by more than an hour of questions and discussion. One audience member wrote a blog piece about my talk. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://nottinghamscience.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/talk-building-galaxies-in-office.html |
Description | Royal Society Summer Exhibition |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Over the course of the four day, more than 600 people attended my talks. The Friday evening presentation was followed by more than an hour of audience questions. Several audience members contacted me to ask additional questions. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | School Visit (Dublin) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Approximately 90 primary school students (3 classes) aged 8-12 years old attended my talks in Rathfarnham Parish National School. Following my visit, a number of students expressed interest in pursuing a career in science. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Secular Society |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Spoke to about 50 members of the Leicester Secular Society. My talk generated considerable discussion among the members of the LSS. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
URL | http://www.leicestersecularsociety.org.uk/calendar/view_entry.php?id=1145&date=20121209 |