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
Humphries Jack
(2018)
Changes in the metallicity of gas giant planets due to pebble accretion
in arXiv e-prints
Humphries R
(2018)
Changes in the metallicity of gas giant planets due to pebble accretion
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Huscher E
(2021)
The changing circumgalactic medium over the last 10 Gyr - I. Physical and dynamical properties
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Hutchinson A
(2022)
Energetic proton back-precipitation onto the solar atmosphere in relation to long-duration gamma-ray flares
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Hutchinson A
(2023)
Modelling shock-like injections of solar energetic particles with 3D test particle simulations
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Hutchinson A
(2023)
Impact of corotation on gradual solar energetic particle event intensity profiles
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Huško F
(2022)
Statistics of galaxy mergers: bridging the gap between theory and observation
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Huško F
(2022)
Spin-driven jet feedback in idealized simulations of galaxy groups and clusters
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Icaza-Lizaola M
(2020)
The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR14 LRG sample: structure growth rate measurement from the anisotropic LRG correlation function in the redshift range 0.6 < z < 1.0
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Icaza-Lizaola M
(2021)
A sparse regression approach to modelling the relation between galaxy stellar masses and their host haloes
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Idini A
(2017)
Ab Initio Optical Potentials and Nucleon Scattering on Medium Mass Nuclei
in Acta Physica Polonica B
Idini A
(2019)
Ab Initio Optical Potentials and Nucleon Scattering on Medium Mass Nuclei.
in Physical review letters
Igoshev A
(2021)
Combined analysis of neutron star natal kicks using proper motions and parallax measurements for radio pulsars and Be X-ray binaries
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Igoshev A
(2021)
3D Magnetothermal Simulations of Tangled Crustal Magnetic Field in Central Compact Objects
in The Astrophysical Journal
Igoshev A
(2020)
Strong toroidal magnetic fields required by quiescent X-ray emission of magnetars
in Nature Astronomy
Irodotou D
(2022)
The effects of AGN feedback on the structural and dynamical properties of Milky Way-mass galaxies in cosmological simulations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Irodotou D
(2021)
Using angular momentum maps to detect kinematically distinct galactic components
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Iršic V
(2017)
New constraints on the free-streaming of warm dark matter from intermediate and small scale Lyman- a forest data
in Physical Review D
Iršic V
(2016)
The Lyman-alpha forest power spectrum from the XQ-100 Legacy Survey
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Iršic V
(2017)
First Constraints on Fuzzy Dark Matter from Lyman-a Forest Data and Hydrodynamical Simulations.
in Physical review letters
Iyer K
(2020)
The diversity and variability of star formation histories in models of galaxy evolution
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Izquierdo A
(2021)
The Cloud Factory II: gravoturbulent kinematics of resolved molecular clouds in a galactic potential
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Izquierdo A
(2021)
The Disc Miner I. A statistical framework to detect and quantify kinematical perturbations driven by young planets in discs
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Jackson R
(2021)
Dark matter-deficient dwarf galaxies form via tidal stripping of dark matter in interactions with massive companions
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Jackson R
(2019)
Massive spheroids can form in single minor mergers
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Jackson T
(2020)
The star formation properties of the observed and simulated AGN Universe: BAT versus EAGLE
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Jankovic M
(2019)
Observing substructure in circumstellar discs around massive young stellar objects
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Jauzac M
(2019)
The core of the massive cluster merger MACS J0417.5-1154 as seen by VLT/MUSE
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Ježo T
(2023)
Resonance-aware NLOPS matching for off-shell $$ t\overline{t} $$ + tW production with semileptonic decays
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Johnston C
(2021)
A fast multi-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic formulation of the transition region adaptive conduction (TRAC) method
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Jones C
(2021)
Fully developed anelastic convection with no-slip boundaries
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Jones M
(2018)
The dependence of stellar properties on initial cloud density
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Joswig F
(2023)
Exploring distillation at the SU(3) flavour symmetric point
Joudaki S
(2020)
KiDS+VIKING-450 and DES-Y1 combined: Cosmology with cosmic shear
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Justtanont K
(2015)
Herschel observations of extreme OH/IR stars The isotopic ratios of oxygen as a sign-post for the stellar mass??
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Kacharov N
(2017)
Prolate rotation and metallicity gradient in the transforming dwarf galaxy Phoenix
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Kalaghatgi C
(2021)
Investigating the effect of in-plane spin directions for precessing binary black hole systems
in Physical Review D
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
Karunakaran A
(2021)
Satellites around Milky Way Analogs: Tension in the Number and Fraction of Quiescent Satellites Seen in Observations versus Simulations
in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Katsianis A
(2021)
The specific star formation rate function at different mass scales and quenching: a comparison between cosmological models and SDSS
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Katsianis A
(2020)
The high-redshift SFR-M* relation is sensitive to the employed star formation rate and stellar mass indicators: towards addressing the tension between observations and simulations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Katz H
(2022)
RAMSES-RTZ: non-equilibrium metal chemistry and cooling coupled to on-the-fly radiation hydrodynamics
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Katz H
(2015)
Seeding high-redshift QSOs by collisional runaway in primordial star clusters
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Katz Harley
(2018)
A Census of the LyC Photons that Form the UV Background During Reionization
in ArXiv e-prints
Katz Harley
(2016)
Interpreting ALMA Observations of the ISM During the Epoch of Reionisation
in ArXiv e-prints
Kaviraj S
(2015)
Galaxy merger histories and the role of merging in driving star formation at z > 1
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Kaviraj S
(2017)
The Horizon-AGN simulation: evolution of galaxy properties over cosmic time
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Kawata D
(2017)
Impacts of a flaring star-forming disc and stellar radial mixing on the vertical metallicity gradient
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Kay S
(2020)
The intracluster light as a tracer of the total matter density distribution: a view from simulations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Keating L
(2015)
Probing the end of reionization with the near zones of z ? 6 QSOs
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 |
| 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 |