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
Castignani G
(2016)
A new method to assign galaxy cluster membership using photometric redshifts
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Campbell D
(2015)
A new methodology to test galaxy formation models using the dependence of clustering on stellar mass
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Phillips M
(2020)
A new set of atmosphere and evolution models for cool T-Y brown dwarfs and giant exoplanets
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Pagano P
(2019)
A New Space Weather Tool for Identifying Eruptive Active Regions
in The Astrophysical Journal
Cautun M
(2015)
A new spin on discs of satellite galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Heinesen A
(2022)
A prediction for anisotropies in the nearby Hubble flow
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Pagano P
(2019)
A Prospective New Diagnostic Technique for Distinguishing Eruptive and Noneruptive Active Regions
in The Astrophysical Journal
Rosdahl J
(2015)
A scheme for radiation pressure and photon diffusion with the M1 closure in ramses-rt
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Tanimura H
(2019)
A search for warm/hot gas filaments between pairs of SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Collins GS
(2020)
A steeply-inclined trajectory for the Chicxulub impact.
in Nature communications
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 |