DiRAC-3 Operations 2019-2022 - Edinburgh
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Edinburgh
Department Name: Sch of Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
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Planned Impact
The DiRAC-3 Facility strategy for impact and innovation delivery is well-aligned with the UK government Industrial Strategy. As such, much of our societal and economic impact will continue to be driven by our engagements with industry. Each DiRAC-3 service provider has a local industrial strategy to deliver continued high levels of industrial engagement and to explore avenues to increase innovation and industrial returns over the next three years. Progress towards the industrial strategy goals will be monitored by the Service Management Boards and the DiRAC Technical Manager and reported to STFC via the DiRAC Oversight Committee.
The "Pathways to Impact" document attached to the lead JeS form for this proposal describes the overall DiRAC-3 industrial strategy, including our strategic goals and key performance indicators.
Examples of the expected impact of DiRAC-3 include:
Dissemination of best practice in High Performance Computing software engineering throughout the theoretical Particle Physics, Astronomy and Nuclear physics communities in the UK as well as to industry partners.
Training of the next generation of research scientists to tackle problems effectively on state-of-the- art of High Performance Computing facilities. Such skills are much in demand from high-tech industry and the cadre of highly-skilled, computationally literate individuals nurtured by DiRAC-3 will have influence beyond academia and will help to maintain the UK's scientific and economic leadership.
Development and delivery of co-design projects with industry partners to improve future generations of hardware and software.
Development of new techniques in the area of High Performance Data Analytics which will benefit industry partners and researchers in other fields such as biomedicine, biology, engineering, economics and social science, and the natural environment who can use these developments to improve research outcomes in their areas.
Sharing of best practice on the design and operation of distributed HPC facilities with UK National e-Infrastructure partners and providing leadership towards an integrated UKRI National e-Infrastructure. By supporting the uptake of emerging technologies by the DiRAC research communities, we will enable other research communities, both in academia and industry, to explore the value of using leading-edge technology to support their research workflows.
Engagement with the general public to promote interest in science, and to explain how our ability to solve complex problems using the latest computer technology leads to new scientific capabilities/insights. Engagement of this kind also naturally encourages the uptake of STEM subjects in schools.
The "Pathways to Impact" document attached to the lead JeS form for this proposal describes the overall DiRAC-3 industrial strategy, including our strategic goals and key performance indicators.
Examples of the expected impact of DiRAC-3 include:
Dissemination of best practice in High Performance Computing software engineering throughout the theoretical Particle Physics, Astronomy and Nuclear physics communities in the UK as well as to industry partners.
Training of the next generation of research scientists to tackle problems effectively on state-of-the- art of High Performance Computing facilities. Such skills are much in demand from high-tech industry and the cadre of highly-skilled, computationally literate individuals nurtured by DiRAC-3 will have influence beyond academia and will help to maintain the UK's scientific and economic leadership.
Development and delivery of co-design projects with industry partners to improve future generations of hardware and software.
Development of new techniques in the area of High Performance Data Analytics which will benefit industry partners and researchers in other fields such as biomedicine, biology, engineering, economics and social science, and the natural environment who can use these developments to improve research outcomes in their areas.
Sharing of best practice on the design and operation of distributed HPC facilities with UK National e-Infrastructure partners and providing leadership towards an integrated UKRI National e-Infrastructure. By supporting the uptake of emerging technologies by the DiRAC research communities, we will enable other research communities, both in academia and industry, to explore the value of using leading-edge technology to support their research workflows.
Engagement with the general public to promote interest in science, and to explain how our ability to solve complex problems using the latest computer technology leads to new scientific capabilities/insights. Engagement of this kind also naturally encourages the uptake of STEM subjects in schools.
Organisations
Publications
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
Vlaykov D
(2022)
Impact of radial truncation on global 2D hydrodynamic simulations for a Sun-like model
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Wakita S
(2022)
Effect of Impact Velocity and Angle on Deformational Heating and Postimpact Temperature
in Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
Wang C
(2023)
Ghostly Galaxies: Accretion-dominated Stellar Systems in Low-mass Dark Matter Halos
in The Astrophysical Journal
Wang J
(2020)
Universal structure of dark matter haloes over a mass range of 20 orders of magnitude.
in Nature
Wang Y
(2020)
Iterative removal of redshift-space distortions from galaxy clustering
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Wang Z
(2022)
Superradiance in massive vector fields with spatially varying mass
in Physical Review D
Wareing C
(2021)
Striations, integrals, hourglasses, and collapse - thermal instability driven magnetic simulations of molecular clouds
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Waterfall C
(2022)
Modeling the Transport of Relativistic Solar Protons along a Heliospheric Current Sheet during Historic GLE Events
in The Astrophysical Journal
Welsh L
(2022)
Oxygen-enhanced Extremely Metal-poor Damped Lya Systems: A Signpost of the First Stars?
in The Astrophysical Journal
Welsh L
(2021)
The stochastic enrichment of Population II stars
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
White S
(2020)
The globular cluster system of the Auriga simulations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Whitworth D
(2022)
Is the molecular KS relationship universal down to low metallicities?
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Widdicombe J
(2020)
Black hole formation in relativistic Oscillaton collisions
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Wijers N
(2022)
The warm-hot circumgalactic medium around EAGLE-simulation galaxies and its detection prospects with X-ray-line emission
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Wijers N
(2020)
The warm-hot circumgalactic medium around EAGLE-simulation galaxies and its detection prospects with X-ray and UV line absorption
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Wilkins S
(2023)
First Light And Reionization Epoch Simulations (FLARES) VII: The star formation and metal enrichment histories of galaxies in the early Universe
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Wilkins S
(2023)
First light and reionization epoch simulations (FLARES) XI: [O iii ] emitting galaxies at 5 < z < 10
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Wilkins S
(2022)
First Light and Reionisation Epoch Simulations (FLARES) - VI. The colour evolution of galaxies z = 5-15
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Wilkins S
(2023)
First light and reionization epoch simulations (FLARES) V: the redshift frontier
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Williams C
(2021)
ALMA Measures Rapidly Depleted Molecular Gas Reservoirs in Massive Quiescent Galaxies at z ~ 1.5
in The Astrophysical Journal
Wilson B
(2022)
A measurement of the Ly ß forest power spectrum and its cross with the Ly a forest in X-Shooter XQ-100
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
Witstok J
(2021)
Prospects for observing the low-density cosmic web in Lyman- a emission
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Witten C
(2024)
Deciphering Lyman-a emission deep into the epoch of reionization
in Nature Astronomy