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
Bulla M
(2015)
Polarization spectral synthesis for Type Ia supernova explosion models
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
Han J
(2015)
The orbital PDF: the dynamical state of Milky Way sized haloes and the intrinsic uncertainty in the determination of their masses
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Schaller M
(2015)
The eagle simulations of galaxy formation: the importance of the hydrodynamics scheme
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Li B
(2015)
Cluster gas fraction as a test of gravity
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Schewtschenko J
(2015)
Dark matter-radiation interactions: the impact on dark matter haloes
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Mead A
(2015)
Rapid simulation rescaling from standard to modified gravity models
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Velliscig M
(2015)
The alignment and shape of dark matter, stellar, and hot gas distributions in the EAGLE and cosmo-OWLS simulations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Trayford J
(2015)
Colours and luminosities of z = 0.1 galaxies in the eagle simulation
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Rosas-Guevara Y
(2015)
The impact of angular momentum on black hole accretion rates in simulations of galaxy formation
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 |