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
Elbers W
(2022)
Higher order initial conditions with massive neutrinos
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bena I
(2019)
Holographic dual of hot Polchinski-Strassler quark-gluon plasma
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sorini D
(2022)
How baryons affect haloes and large-scale structure: a unified picture from the Simba simulation
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Mitchell P
(2022)
How gas flows shape the stellar-halo mass relation in the eagle simulation
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Ho S
(2021)
How Identifying Circumgalactic Gas by Line-of-sight Velocity instead of the Location in 3D Space Affects O vi Measurements
in The Astrophysical Journal
Threlfall J
(2020)
How Is Helicity (and Twist) Partitioned in Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Reconnecting Magnetic Flux Tubes?
in The Astrophysical Journal
Khachaturyants T
(2021)
How stars formed in warps settle into (and contaminate) thick discs
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Garzilli A
(2021)
How to constrain warm dark matter with the Lyman-a forest
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Slyz A
(2020)
How to quench a dwarf galaxy: The impact of inhomogeneous reionization on dwarf galaxies and cosmic filaments
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Pontzen A
(2017)
How to quench a galaxy
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Evans T
(2020)
How unusual is the Milky Way's assembly history?
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Lower S
(2020)
How Well Can We Measure the Stellar Mass of a Galaxy: The Impact of the Assumed Star Formation History Model in SED Fitting
in The Astrophysical Journal
Hou J
(2021)
How well is angular momentum accretion modelled in semi-analytic galaxy formation models?
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Edwards B
(2020)
Hubble WFC3 Spectroscopy of the Habitable-zone Super-Earth LHS 1140 b
in The Astronomical Journal
Moews B
(2021)
Hybrid analytic and machine-learned baryonic property insertion into galactic dark matter haloes
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Pagano P
(2020)
Hydrogen non-equilibrium ionisation effects in coronal mass ejections
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Bosman S
(2022)
Hydrogen reionization ends by z = 5.3: Lyman-a optical depth measured by the XQR-30 sample
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Sainsbury-Martinez F
(2019)
Idealised simulations of the deep atmosphere of hot Jupiters Deep, hot adiabats as a robust solution to the radius inflation problem
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Kegerreis J
(2022)
Immediate Origin of the Moon as a Post-impact Satellite
in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Hutchinson A
(2023)
Impact of corotation on gradual solar energetic particle event intensity profiles
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Hu Shaoran
(2017)
Impact of Cosmological Satellites on Stellar Discs: Dissecting One Satellite at a Time
in ArXiv e-prints
Grand R
(2015)
Impact of radial migration on stellar and gas radial metallicity distribution
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Han D
(2022)
Impact of Radiation Feedback on the Formation of Globular Cluster Candidates during Cloud-Cloud Collisions
in The Astrophysical Journal
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
Eager-Nash J
(2020)
Implications of different stellar spectra for the climate of tidally locked Earth-like exoplanets
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Raste J
(2021)
Implications of the z > 5 Lyman-a forest for the 21-cm power spectrum from the epoch of reionization
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Drummond B
(2020)
Implications of three-dimensional chemical transport in hot Jupiter atmospheres: Results from a consistently coupled chemistry-radiation-hydrodynamics model
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Chakraborty B
(2021)
Improved V c s determination using precise lattice QCD form factors for D ? K l ?
in Physical Review D
Davies C
(2019)
Improving the kinetic couplings in lattice nonrelativistic QCD
in Physical Review D
Donevski D
(2020)
In pursuit of giants I. The evolution of the dust-to-stellar mass ratio in distant dusty galaxies
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Coleman G
(2017)
In situ accretion of gaseous envelopes on to planetary cores embedded in evolving protoplanetary discs
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Rocco N
(2018)
Inclusive electron-nucleus cross section within the self-consistent Green's function approach
in Physical Review C
Borrow J
(2021)
Inconsistencies arising from the coupling of galaxy formation sub-grid models to pressure-smoothed particle hydrodynamics
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Falck B
(2021)
Indra: a public computationally accessible suite of cosmological N -body simulations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Poole-McKenzie R
(2020)
Informing dark matter direct detection limits with the ARTEMIS simulations
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Vandenbroucke B
(2020)
Infrared luminosity functions and dust mass functions in the EAGLE simulation
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Czakon M
(2023)
Infrared-safe flavoured anti-kT jets
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Ratnasingam R
(2023)
Internal gravity waves in massive stars II. Frequency analysis across stellar mass
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Stevenson P
(2020)
Internuclear potentials from the Sky3D code
in IOP SciNotes
Katz Harley
(2016)
Interpreting ALMA Observations of the ISM During the Epoch of Reionisation
in ArXiv e-prints
Buie E
(2020)
Interpreting Observations of Absorption Lines in the Circumgalactic Medium with a Turbulent Medium
in The Astrophysical Journal
Codis S
(2015)
Intrinsic alignment of simulated galaxies in the cosmic web: implications for weak lensing surveys
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Hill A
(2022)
Intrinsic alignments of the extended radio continuum emission of galaxies in the EAGLE simulations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Pontzen Andrew
(2015)
Inverted initial conditions: exploring the growth of cosmic structure and voids
in ArXiv e-prints
Vizgan D
(2022)
Investigating the [C ii]-to-H i Conversion Factor and the H i Gas Budget of Galaxies at z ˜ 6 with Hydrodynamic Simulations
in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Kalaghatgi C
(2021)
Investigating the effect of in-plane spin directions for precessing binary black hole systems
in Physical Review D
Linh B
(2021)
Investigation of the ground-state spin inversion in the neutron-rich Cl 47 , 49 isotopes
in Physical Review C
Sundberg T
(2016)
ION ACCELERATION AT THE QUASI-PARALLEL BOW SHOCK: DECODING THE SIGNATURE OF INJECTION
in The Astrophysical Journal
Hillier A
(2019)
Ion-neutral decoupling in the nonlinear Kelvin-Helmholtz instability: Case of field-aligned flow
in Physics of Plasmas
Hellinger P
(2022)
Ion-scale Transition of Plasma Turbulence: Pressure-Strain Effect
in The Astrophysical Journal
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 |