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
Idini A
(2017)
Ab Initio Optical Potentials and Nucleon Scattering on Medium Mass Nuclei
in Acta Physica Polonica B
Wen K
(2019)
Dissipation Dynamics of Nuclear Fusion Reactions
in Acta Physica Polonica B
Le Bret Theo
(2015)
Particle tagging and its implications for stellar population dynamics
in arXiv e-prints
Pontzen Andrew
(2015)
Inverted initial conditions: exploring the growth of cosmic structure and voids
in ArXiv e-prints
Smith Matthew C.
(2017)
Supernova feedback in numerical simulations of galaxy formation: separating physics from numerics
in ArXiv e-prints
Nayakshin Sergei
(2016)
A desert of gas giant planets beyond tens of au
in arXiv e-prints
Hu Shaoran
(2017)
Impact of Cosmological Satellites on Stellar Discs: Dissecting One Satellite at a Time
in ArXiv e-prints
Humphries Jack
(2018)
Changes in the metallicity of gas giant planets due to pebble accretion
in arXiv e-prints
Costa Tiago
(2017)
Quenching star formation with quasar outflows launched by trapped IR radiation
in ArXiv e-prints
Katz Harley
(2018)
A Census of the LyC Photons that Form the UV Background During Reionization
in ArXiv e-prints
Welker Charlotte
(2015)
Caught in the rhythm: how satellites settle into a plane around their central galaxy
in arXiv e-prints
Fiacconi Davide
(2017)
Galaxy formation simulations with spinning black holes: method and implementation
in ArXiv e-prints
Katz Harley
(2016)
Interpreting ALMA Observations of the ISM During the Epoch of Reionisation
in ArXiv e-prints
Volonteri Marta
(2016)
The cosmic evolution of massive black holes in the Horizon-AGN simulation
in ArXiv e-prints
Kimm Taysun
(2015)
Formation of globular clusters in atomic-cooling halos via rapid gas condensation and fragmentation during the epoch of reionization
in ArXiv e-prints
Horst L
(2021)
Multidimensional low-Mach number time-implicit hydrodynamic simulations of convective helium shell burning in a massive star
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Vandenbroucke B
(2021)
Polarised emission from aligned dust grains in nearby galaxies: Predictions from the Auriga simulations
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Pariat E
(2023)
Comparison of magnetic energy and helicity in coronal jet simulations
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Geroux C
(2016)
Multi-dimensional structure of accreting young stars
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Gronow S
(2021)
Double detonations of sub-M Ch CO white dwarfs: variations in Type Ia supernovae due to different core and He shell masses
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
MacLachlan J
(2015)
Photoionising feedback and the star formation rates in galaxies
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Pierens A
(2023)
Three-dimensional evolution of radiative circumbinary discs: The size and shape of the inner cavity
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Donevski D
(2020)
In pursuit of giants I. The evolution of the dust-to-stellar mass ratio in distant dusty galaxies
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Witstok J
(2021)
Prospects for observing the low-density cosmic web in Lyman- a emission
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Rosito M
(2019)
The mass-size plane of EAGLE galaxies
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Dimmock A
(2023)
Backstreaming ions at a high Mach number interplanetary shock Solar Orbiter measurements during the nominal mission phase
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Reissl S
(2020)
Synthetic observations of spiral arm tracers of a simulated Milky Way analog
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Lach F
(2022)
Type Iax supernovae from deflagrations in Chandrasekhar mass white dwarfs
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Rosito M
(2019)
Assembly of spheroid-dominated galaxies in the EAGLE simulation
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Lega E
(2022)
Migration of Jupiter mass planets in discs with laminar accretion flows
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Amundsen D
(2016)
The UK Met Office global circulation model with a sophisticated radiation scheme applied to the hot Jupiter HD 209458b
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Johnston C
(2021)
A fast multi-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic formulation of the transition region adaptive conduction (TRAC) method
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Soler J
(2022)
The Galactic dynamics revealed by the filamentary structure in atomic hydrogen emission
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Bulla M
(2020)
White dwarf deflagrations for Type Iax supernovae: polarisation signatures from the explosion and companion interaction
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Gronow S
(2021)
Metallicity-dependent nucleosynthetic yields of Type Ia supernovae originating from double detonations of sub- M Ch white dwarfs
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Drummond B
(2016)
The effects of consistent chemical kinetics calculations on the pressure-temperature profiles and emission spectra of hot Jupiters
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Hutchinson A
(2022)
Energetic proton back-precipitation onto the solar atmosphere in relation to long-duration gamma-ray flares
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Mercer A
(2020)
Planet formation around M dwarfs via disc instability Fragmentation conditions and protoplanet properties
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Pratt J
(2016)
Spherical-shell boundaries for two-dimensional compressible convection in a star
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Upadhyay A
(2021)
Star formation histories of Coma cluster galaxies matched to simulated orbits hint at quenching around first pericenter
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Montargès M
(2023)
The VLT/SPHERE view of the ATOMIUM cool evolved star sample I. Overview: Sample characterization through polarization analysis
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Howson T
(2020)
Phase mixing and wave heating in a complex coronal plasma
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Laitinen T
(2023)
Solar energetic particle event onsets at different heliolongitudes: The effect of turbulence in Parker spiral geometry
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Nixon C
(2019)
What is wrong with steady accretion discs?
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Joudaki S
(2020)
KiDS+VIKING-450 and DES-Y1 combined: Cosmology with cosmic shear
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Louvet F
(2014)
The W43-MM1 mini-starburst ridge, a test for star formation efficiency models
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Lach F
(2022)
Models of pulsationally assisted gravitationally confined detonations with different ignition conditions
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Vincenzo F
(2019)
He abundances in disc galaxies I. Predictions from cosmological chemodynamical simulations
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Ruiz-Lara T
(2016)
The imprint of satellite accretion on the chemical and dynamical properties of disc galaxies
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Andrassy R
(2022)
Dynamics in a stellar convective layer and at its boundary: Comparison of five 3D hydrodynamics codes
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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 |
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 | 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 |