DiRAC Science Day 2023 was held on December 12th, 2023 at the Liverpool Medical Institution & Conference Centre in Liverpool. The event was an in-person gathering that provided DiRAC users with the opportunity to meet the technical support teams for DiRAC resources in person and interact with leading industry vendors. Members of the DiRAC community presented research results and learned about the scientific highlights of the various consortia across the DiRAC facility.
The day was packed with scientific and technical presentations, followed by a reception and the poster session prize-giving. Links to the available presentations can be found below as well as entrants to the poster session along with the two entries which were awarded a prize.
Morning Session
Simon Hands
Welcome & Introduction
Mark Wilkinson
Director’s Report
Robert Crain (LJMU)
Galaxy formation including globular clusters
Max Hansen (Edinburgh)
Using first-principles lattice QCD calculations to hunt for new physics
Maria Marcha
DiRAC Innovation Projects
Richard Regan
DiRAC Training Academy
Afternoon Science Session
Chair – Adrian Jenkins
Matteo Vorabbi (Surrey)
Towards an ab initio calculation of nucleon-nucleus optical potentials for heavy targets
James Bolton (Nottingham)
Exploring the intergalactic medium with the Sherwood-Relics simulations
James Nightingale (Durham)
Galaxies, Dark Matter and Supermassive Black Holes with Strong Gravitational Lensing
Stuart Sim (Queens Belfast)
Simulating stellar explosions: supernovae and neutron star mergers
Science Session 2
Chair – Matthew Wingate
Luis Teodoro (Glasgow)
A Recent Impact Origin of Saturn’s Rings
Patricia Schmidt (Birmingham)
Unlocking Gravitational-Wave Observations: The Role of Numerical of Simulations
David Schaich (Liverpool)
Broader applications of lattice field theory
Afternoon Technical Session
Alastair Basden
Introduction
Biagio Lucini
DiRAC-3 phase-2
Chris Mountford
Leicester ARM GPU talk
DAWN, Kacper Kornet
DDN, Rich Mansfield
DDN and DiRAC
HPE, Nick Southorn / Eric Fauvet
Convergence of HPC and AI workloads
Intel, Fouzhan Hosseini
OneAPI and PVC
Logicalis, Chris Coates
Secure Lustre
Vast, Doug Hatfield
Aligning data infrastructure to meet new demands for AI research and investment
Break
Alastair Basden
Net-zero and DiRAC (slot donated by Lenovo)
ExCALIBUR H&ES
Overview
StorJ
Distributed Cloud Storage
Cornelis
Congestion avoidance with Omni-Path Fabrics