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
Bijnens J
(2019)
Electromagnetic finite-size effects to the hadronic vacuum polarization
in Physical Review D
Bilimogga P
(2022)
Using eagle simulations to study the effect of observational constraints on the determination of H i asymmetries in galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Birkin J
(2019)
Reconstructing the baryon acoustic oscillations using biased tracers
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Blondin S
(2022)
StaNdaRT: a repository of standardised test models and outputs for supernova radiative transfer
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Blum T
(2021)
Lattice determination of I = 0 and 2 p p scattering phase shifts with a physical pion mass
in Physical Review D
Blum T
(2023)
Update of Euclidean windows of the hadronic vacuum polarization
in Physical Review D
Bolton J
(2022)
Limits on non-canonical heating and turbulence in the intergalactic medium from the low redshift Lyman a forest
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bolton JS
(2022)
Comparison of Low-Redshift Lyman-a Forest Observations to Hydrodynamical Simulations with Dark Photon Dark Matter.
in Physical review letters
Booth R
(2019)
Characterizing gravito-turbulence in 3D: turbulent properties and stability against fragmentation
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Borrow J
(2020)
Cosmological baryon transfer in the simba simulations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Borrow J
(2021)
Inconsistencies arising from the coupling of galaxy formation sub-grid models to pressure-smoothed particle hydrodynamics
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Borrow J
(2022)
Sphenix : smoothed particle hydrodynamics for the next generation of galaxy formation simulations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Borukhovetskaya A
(2022)
The tidal evolution of the Fornax dwarf spheroidal and its globular clusters
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Borukhovetskaya A
(2022)
Galactic tides and the Crater II dwarf spheroidal: a challenge to LCDM?
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bose S
(2015)
Testing the quasi-static approximation in f ( R ) gravity simulations
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Bose S
(2016)
Reionization in sterile neutrino cosmologies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bose S
(2019)
No cores in dark matter-dominated dwarf galaxies with bursty star formation histories
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bose S
(2017)
Substructure and galaxy formation in the Copernicus Complexio warm dark matter simulations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bose S
(2015)
The Copernicus Complexio: statistical properties of warm dark matter haloes
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bosman S
(2022)
Hydrogen reionization ends by z = 5.3: Lyman-a optical depth measured by the XQR-30 sample
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bourne M
(2017)
AGN jet feedback on a moving mesh: cocoon inflation, gas flows and turbulence
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bourne M
(2019)
AGN jet feedback on a moving mesh: lobe energetics and X-ray properties in a realistic cluster environment
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bourne M
(2021)
AGN jet feedback on a moving mesh: gentle cluster heating by weak shocks and lobe disruption
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bower R
(2017)
The dark nemesis of galaxy formation: why hot haloes trigger black hole growth and bring star formation to an end
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 |