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
Bamber J
(2023)
Black hole merger simulations in wave dark matter environments
in Physical Review D
Bantilan H
(2019)
End point of nonaxisymmetric black hole instabilities in higher dimensions
in Physical Review D
Bantilan H
(2021)
Cauchy evolution of asymptotically global AdS spacetimes with no symmetries
in Physical Review D
Bantilan H
(2020)
Real-Time Dynamics of Plasma Balls from Holography.
in Physical review letters
Baraffe I
(2021)
Two-dimensional simulations of solar-like models with artificially enhanced luminosity I. Impact on convective penetration
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Baraffe I
(2022)
Local heating due to convective overshooting and the solar modelling problem
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Baraffe I
(2023)
A study of convective core overshooting as a function of stellar mass based on two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Barausse E
(2020)
Prospects for fundamental physics with LISA
in General Relativity and Gravitation
Barber C
(2016)
The origin of compact galaxies with anomalously high black hole masses
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Barber C
(2019)
Calibrated, cosmological hydrodynamical simulations with variable IMFs III: spatially resolved properties and evolution
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
| 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 |