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.
Organisations
Publications
Finn C
(2014)
A compact, metal-rich, kpc-scale outflow in FBQS J0209-0438: detailed diagnostics from HST/COS extreme UV observations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Guervilly C
(2014)
Large-scale vortices in rapidly rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Lagos C
(2014)
The origin of the atomic and molecular gas contents of early-type galaxies - I. A new test of galaxy formation physics
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Cautun M
(2014)
Milky Way mass constraints from the Galactic satellite gap
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Barreira A
(2014)
Halo model and halo properties in Galileon gravity cosmologies
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Lovell M
(2014)
The properties of warm dark matter haloes
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gonzalez-Perez V
(2014)
How sensitive are predicted galaxy luminosities to the choice of stellar population synthesis model?
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Massey R
(2014)
An improved model of charge transfer inefficiency and correction algorithm for the Hubble Space Telescope
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Schaller M
(2015)
The offsets between galaxies and their dark matter in ? cold dark matter
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Gonnet P
(2015)
Efficient and Scalable Algorithms for Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics on Hybrid Shared/Distributed-Memory Architectures
in SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
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 |