DiRAC-2 Datacentric support grant
Lead Research Organisation:
Durham University
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
The grant is to pay for management and running costs of the DiRAC-2 Durham datacentric facility for 36 months starting 1/4/14
Planned Impact
DiRAC would seek to engage with industry at various levels, from the provision of computing cycles for industrial applications to the exchange of technical knowledge and shared training programmes. The facility will serve to train young scientists in the most advanced techniques for supercomputing. These have extensive application beyond academia, for example in industry. Finally, output from Dirac-based projects will be used for science outreach activities.
Publications
Aumer M
(2017)
Migration and kinematics in growing disc galaxies with thin and thick discs
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Aumer M
(2016)
Age-velocity dispersion relations and heating histories in disc galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Aumer M
(2017)
The structural evolution of galaxies with both thin and thick discs
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Aurrekoetxea J
(2020)
The effects of potential shape on inhomogeneous inflation
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Aurrekoetxea J
(2023)
Oscillon formation during inflationary preheating with general relativity
in Physical Review D
Aurrekoetxea J
(2020)
Coherent gravitational waveforms and memory from cosmic string loops
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Aurrekoetxea J
(2022)
Where is the ringdown: Reconstructing quasinormal modes from dispersive waves
in Physical Review D
Aviles A
(2020)
Marked correlation functions in perturbation theory
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Badger S
(2023)
Isolated photon production in association with a jet pair through next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Baek G
(2020)
Radiative Transfer Modeling of EC 53: An Episodically Accreting Class I Young Stellar Object
in The Astrophysical Journal
| Description | The grant supported the DiRAC-2 Data Centric supercomputer service at Durham. This service forms part of the national DiRAC-2 facility that supports theoretical research in astronomy, cosmology and, particle and nuclear physics. The work has led to a large number of scientific publications mainly to do with astronomy. A publication list is provided on the DiRAC website given below. Particular highlights include the first large simulation of galaxy formation in a large volume that is able to accurately reproduce the masses and sizes of galaxies, and the modelling of the first gravitational wave event detected, which was used to help determine the sizes and properties of the black holes that merged and generated the gravitational waves. |
| Exploitation Route | The papers written contribute to the scientific literature and in some cases have been cited hundreds of times. |
| Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Education Other |
| URL | https://dirac.ac.uk/science_news.html |
| Description | GEMS project crossover |
| Organisation | Durham University |
| Department | Durham Energy Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Continued development of minewater heat storage solutions |
| Collaborator Contribution | Use of the GEMS toolkit |
| Impact | - European Geosciences Union EGU25: Data Centre waste heat storage within abandonded flooded mine workings, Vienna. - County Durham Climate Emergency Strategic Board: ICHS project update, Feb 2025. - IEA Minewater discussion group: Talk, ICHS project update, 17th Feb 2025. - Minewater symposium: ICHS project update, 7-8th May 2025. - Durham HPC Days: Talk, May 2024 - HPC/AI Advisory Council: Talk, October 2024 - DiRAC Day: Talk, December 2024 - CIUK: Talk, December 2024 |
| Start Year | 2024 |