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
Dobbs C
(2017)
The properties, origin and evolution of stellar clusters in galaxy simulations and observations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bate M
(2018)
On the diversity and statistical properties of protostellar discs
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Katz H
(2019)
Probing cosmic dawn: modelling the assembly history, SEDs, and dust content of selected z ~ 9 galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Santos-Santos I
(2015)
The distribution of mass components in simulated disc galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Haworth T
(2020)
The observational anatomy of externally photoevaporating planet-forming discs - I. Atomic carbon
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Smethurst R
(2024)
Evidence for non-merger co-evolution of galaxies and their supermassive black holes
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
Rieder S
(2022)
The formation and early evolution of embedded star clusters in spiral galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Le Saux A
(2023)
Two-dimensional simulations of internal gravity waves in a 5 M? zero-age-main-sequence model
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Richard S
(2016)
Vortex formation in protoplanetary discs induced by the vertical shear instability
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
Aumer M
(2017)
The structural evolution of galaxies with both thin and thick discs
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gray M
(2019)
Maser flare simulations from oblate and prolate clouds
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
Cintio A
(2014)
A mass-dependent density profile for dark matter haloes including the influence of galaxy formation
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Ziampras A
(2023)
Buoyancy response of a disc to an embedded planet: a cross-code comparison at high resolution
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Battino U
(2019)
NuGrid stellar data set - III. Updated low-mass AGB models and s-process nucleosynthesis with metallicities Z= 0.01, Z = 0.02, and Z = 0.03
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Martin-Alvarez S
(2018)
A three-phase amplification of the cosmic magnetic field in galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Kume A
(2020)
Shape analysis of H ii regions - II. Synthetic observations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Katz H
(2020)
New methods for identifying Lyman continuum leakers and reionization-epoch analogues
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Orkney M
(2021)
EDGE: two routes to dark matter core formation in ultra-faint dwarfs
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gómez-Guijarro C
(2020)
How primordial magnetic fields shrink galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Nayakshin S
(2015)
Tidal downsizing model - I. Numerical methods: saving giant planets from tidal disruptions
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Duarte-Cabral A
(2017)
The evolution of giant molecular filaments
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Katz H
(2019)
Tracing the sources of reionization in cosmological radiation hydrodynamics simulations
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
Wurster J
(2018)
On the origin of magnetic fields in stars
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Katz H
(2018)
A Census of the LyC photons that form the UV background during reionization
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Elahi P
(2016)
nIFTY galaxy cluster simulations - III. The similarity and diversity of galaxies and subhaloes
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Schulz A
(2013)
Gravitational collapse in one dimension
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Ali A
(2019)
Massive star feedback in clusters: variation of the FUV interstellar radiation field in time and space
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
(2023)
Gas and star kinematics in cloud-cloud collisions
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bate M
(2019)
The statistical properties of stars and their dependence on metallicity
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
Generozov A
(2022)
Forming young and hypervelocity stars in the Galactic Centre via tidal disruption of a molecular cloud
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Snaith O
(2016)
The history of stellar metallicity in a simulated disc galaxy
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Aumer M
(2016)
The quiescent phase of galactic disc growth
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Igoshev A
(2023)
Three-dimensional magnetothermal evolution of off-centred dipole magnetic field configurations in neutron stars
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Scardoni C
(2022)
Inward and outward migration of massive planets: moving towards a stalling radius
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Ross J
(2017)
MRI turbulence and thermal instability in accretion discs
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Helling C
(2016)
The mineral clouds on HD 209458b and HD 189733b
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Katz H
(2023)
The challenges of identifying Population III stars in the early Universe
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Katz H
(2019)
Probing cosmic dawn with emission lines: predicting infrared and nebular line emission for ALMA and JWST
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Puchwein E
(2015)
The photoheating of the intergalactic medium in synthesis models of the UV background
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Lance S
(2024)
Viscous dissipation and dynamics in simulations of rotating, stratified plane-layer convection
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
Iršic V
(2016)
The Lyman-alpha forest power spectrum from the XQ-100 Legacy Survey
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Hall C
(2016)
Directly observing continuum emission from self-gravitating spiral waves
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Mutter M
(2017)
The role of disc self-gravity in circumbinary planet systems - II. Planet evolution
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 | 04/2012 |
| 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 | 05/2014 |
| 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 |