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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

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Arthuis P (2020) Ab Initio Computation of Charge Densities for Sn and Xe Isotopes. in Physical review letters

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Ascaso B (2015) Galaxy clusters and groups in the ALHAMBRA survey in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Ashworth G (2017) Exploring the IMF of star clusters: a joint SLUG and LEGUS effort in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Attanasio F (2020) Complex Langevin simulations and the QCD phase diagram: recent developments in The European Physical Journal A

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Attanasio F (2022) Equation of state from complex Langevin simulations in EPJ Web of Conferences

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Aumer M (2016) The quiescent phase of galactic disc growth in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Aumer M (2017) Migration and kinematics in growing disc galaxies with thin and thick discs in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Aumer M (2016) Age-velocity dispersion relations and heating histories in disc galaxies in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Aumer M (2017) The structural evolution of galaxies with both thin and thick discs in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Aurrekoetxea J (2020) The effects of potential shape on inhomogeneous inflation in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

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Aurrekoetxea J (2020) Coherent gravitational waveforms and memory from cosmic string loops in Classical and Quantum Gravity

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Aviles A (2020) Marked correlation functions in perturbation theory in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

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Baes M (2019) The cosmic spectral energy distribution in the EAGLE simulation in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Bahé Y (2021) Strongly lensed cluster substructures are not in tension with ?CDM in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Bahé Y (2017) The origin of the enhanced metallicity of satellite galaxies in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Bahé Y (2022) The importance of black hole repositioning for galaxy formation simulations in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Bahé Y (2015) The distribution of atomic hydrogen in eagle galaxies: morphologies, profiles, and H i holes 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
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