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
Shao S
(2016)
Alignments between galaxies, satellite systems and haloes
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Shao S
(2021)
The survival of globular clusters in a cuspy Fornax
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Shao S
(2021)
The twisted dark matter halo of the Milky Way
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Shao S
(2019)
Evolution of galactic planes of satellites in the eagle simulation
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Sharma M
(2016)
The brighter galaxies reionized the Universe
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Sharma M
(2019)
The I?ea model of feedback-regulated galaxy formation
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Sherletov A
(2023)
Lattice Studies of 3D Maximally Supersymmetric Yang-Mills
Shi D
(2015)
Exploring the liminality: properties of haloes and subhaloes in borderline f ( R ) gravity
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Shi D
(2017)
Environmental screening of dark matter haloes in f ( R ) gravity
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Shi D
(2016)
Can we distinguish early dark energy from a cosmological constant?
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Shingles L
(2020)
Monte Carlo radiative transfer for the nebular phase of Type Ia supernovae
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Shingles L
(2023)
Self-consistent 3D Radiative Transfer for Kilonovae: Directional Spectra from Merger Simulations
in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Shingles L
(2022)
Modelling the ionization state of Type Ia supernovae in the nebular phase
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Shiraishi M
(2019)
General modal estimation for cross-bispectra
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Silva HO
(2021)
Dynamical Descalarization in Binary Black Hole Mergers.
in Physical review letters
Simpson C
(2020)
The milky way total mass profile as inferred from Gaia DR2
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Simpson C
(2019)
Simulating cosmological substructure in the solar neighbourhood
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Sirks E
(2022)
The effects of self-interacting dark matter on the stripping of galaxies that fall into clusters
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Skaf N
(2020)
ARES. II. Characterizing the Hot Jupiters WASP-127 b, WASP-79 b, and WASP-62b with the Hubble Space Telescope*
in The Astronomical Journal
Skullerud J
(2022)
Hadrons at high temperature: An update from the FASTSUM collaboration
in EPJ Web of Conferences
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
Smail R
(2023)
Constraining beyond the standard model nucleon isovector charges
in Physical Review D
Smith A
(2022)
Solving small-scale clustering problems in approximate light-cone mocks
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Smith A
(2022)
A light-cone catalogue from the Millennium-XXL simulation: improved spatial interpolation and colour distributions for the DESI BGS
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Smith A
(2021)
Reducing the variance of redshift space distortion measurements from mock galaxy catalogues with different lines of sight
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 |