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
Owens A
(2019)
Theoretical rotation-vibration spectroscopy of cis- and trans-diphosphene (P2H2) and the deuterated species P2HD.
in The Journal of chemical physics
Owens A
(2021)
Theoretical rovibronic spectroscopy of the calcium monohydroxide radical (CaOH).
in The Journal of chemical physics
Hands T
(2016)
There might be giants: unseen Jupiter-mass planets as sculptors of tightly packed planetary systems
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Green S
(2019)
Thermal emission from bow shocks I. 2D hydrodynamic models of the Bubble Nebula
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Falle S
(2020)
Thermal instability revisited
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Lawlor D
(2022)
Thermal Transitions in Dense Two-Colour QCD
in EPJ Web of Conferences
Pierens A
(2023)
Three-dimensional evolution of radiative circumbinary discs: The size and shape of the inner cavity
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Agudelo Rueda J
(2021)
Three-dimensional magnetic reconnection in particle-in-cell simulations of anisotropic plasma turbulence
in Journal of Plasma Physics
Trotta D
(2023)
Three-dimensional modelling of the shock-turbulence interaction
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Edelmann P
(2019)
Three-dimensional Simulations of Massive Stars. I. Wave Generation and Propagation
in The Astrophysical Journal
Golightly E
(2019)
Tidal Disruption Events: The Role of Stellar Spin
in The Astrophysical Journal
Nayakshin S
(2015)
Tidal Downsizing model - III. Planets from sub-Earths to brown dwarfs: structure and metallicity preferences
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Duguid C
(2019)
Tidal flows with convection: frequency-dependence of the effective viscosity and evidence for anti-dissipation
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Astoul A
(2023)
Tidally Excited Inertial Waves in Stars and Planets: Exploring the Frequency-dependent and Averaged Dissipation with Nonlinear Simulations
in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Pastorek A
(2022)
Time-resolved fourier transform infrared emission spectroscopy of NH radical in the X3S- ground state
in Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
Yip K
(2024)
To Sample or Not to Sample: Retrieving Exoplanetary Spectra with Variational Inference and Normalizing Flows
in The Astrophysical Journal
Genina A
(2020)
To ß or not to ß: can higher order Jeans analysis break the mass-anisotropy degeneracy in simulated dwarfs?
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Cashmore C
(2017)
Too small to succeed: the difficulty of sustaining star formation in low-mass haloes
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Lorén-Aguilar P
(2015)
Toroidal vortices and the conglomeration of dust into rings in protoplanetary discs
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Lorén-Aguilar P
(2016)
Toroidal vortices as a solution to the dust migration problem
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Bisbas T
(2015)
torus-3dpdr: a self-consistent code treating three-dimensional photoionization and photodissociation regions
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Lovell M
(2020)
Toward a General Parameterization of the Warm Dark Matter Halo Mass Function
in The Astrophysical Journal
Parrott W
(2021)
Toward accurate form factors for B -to-light meson decay from lattice QCD
in Physical Review D
Cuesta-Lazaro C
(2020)
Towards a non-Gaussian model of redshift space distortions
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Brown S
(2022)
Towards a universal model for the density profiles of dark matter haloes
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Ruan C
(2022)
Towards an accurate model of small-scale redshift-space distortions in modified gravity
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Witek H
(2020)
Towards numerical relativity in scalar Gauss-Bonnet gravity: 3 + 1 decomposition beyond the small-coupling limit
in Physical Review D
Kimm T
(2015)
Towards simulating star formation in turbulent high-z galaxies with mechanical supernova feedback
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Yurchenko SN
(2020)
Treating linear molecules in calculations of rotation-vibration spectra.
in The Journal of chemical physics
Amundsen D
(2017)
Treatment of overlapping gaseous absorption with the correlated- k method in hot Jupiter and brown dwarf atmosphere models
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Guervilly C
(2019)
Turbulent convective length scale in planetary cores.
in Nature
Vidal J
(2020)
Turbulent Viscosity Acting on the Equilibrium Tidal Flow in Convective Stars
in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Panic O
(2020)
TW Hya: an old protoplanetary disc revived by its planet
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Nayakshin S
(2020)
TW Hya: an old protoplanetary disc revived by its planet
Nayakshin, Sergei
(2020)
TW Hya: an old protoplanetary disc revived by its planet
Le Saux A
(2022)
Two-dimensional simulations of solar-like models with artificially enhanced luminosity II. Impact on internal gravity waves
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Lorén-Aguilar P
(2015)
Two-fluid dust and gas mixtures in smoothed particle hydrodynamics II: an improved semi-implicit approach
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Banfi A
(2016)
Two-Jet Rate in e^{+}e^{-} at Next-to-Next-to-Leading-Logarithmic Order.
in Physical review letters
Chawdhry H
(2021)
Two-loop leading-color helicity amplitudes for three-photon production at the LHC
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Chawdhry H
(2021)
Two-loop leading-colour QCD helicity amplitudes for two-photon plus jet production at the LHC
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Bulla M
(2016)
Type Ia supernovae from violent mergers of carbon-oxygen white dwarfs: polarization signatures
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Lach F
(2022)
Type Iax supernovae from deflagrations in Chandrasekhar mass white dwarfs
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Liao S
(2019)
Ultra-diffuse galaxies in the Auriga simulations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Nishimura (????) N
(2019)
Uncertainties in ?p-process nucleosynthesis from Monte Carlo variation of reaction rates
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gratton S
(2020)
Understanding parameter differences between analyses employing nested data subsets
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Hands T
(2014)
Understanding the assembly of Kepler's compact planetary systems
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Kimm T
(2019)
Understanding the escape of LyC and Lya photons from turbulent clouds
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Eke V
(2020)
Understanding the large inferred Einstein radii of observed low-mass galaxy clusters
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 |