Foundational Tools

These projects showcase more foundational tools, rather than domain-specific software, These projects may also highlight cross-domain techniques or services for interoperability. They may also focus on security and/or sustainability, leading to researchers adopting better software development practices when developing software. They will also encourage researchers to build on robust, shared tools rather than reinventing them.

Porting XCompact3D to AMD GPUs

This project will port the x3d2 code, which already has NVIDIA GPU support to AMD GPUs. We will achieve this by implementing a vendor-agnostic backend based on OpenMP Target offloading...

Very High-Order Solver Frameworks for Compressible Turbulent Mixing

Our long-term research program focuses on advancing governing models and numerical methods for unsteady turbulent flows, which are then employed to deliver substantially improved fundamental understanding of turbulent flows including...

SWIFT - Facilitating performance-portable GPU acceleration in a task-based massively parallel SPH solver

This project aims to facilitate performance-portable GPU acceleration of the task-parallel Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Astrophysics solver SWIFT. This endeavour is founded on and expands our previous successful proof-of-concept work with...

Accelerated and differentiable spherical transforms

Many fields of science and engineering encounter data on spherical manifolds. The diversity of applications is remarkable, ranging from geophysics, exoplanets, and climate, to early and late Universe cosmology, to...

Developing a heterogeneous SPH solver based on the DualSPHysics GPU codes

The meshless method smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is revolutionising the simulation of hydrodynamics in complex multi-physics problems. As one of the leading open-source SPH codes, DualSPHysics has successfully been applied...

gpuFoam - Implementation of GPU_enablers for OpenFOAM

OpenFOAM is the world’s leading Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code with an estimated 50,000 users worldwide and a remarkable level of penetration into both academic research and industrial use. It...

Achieving high-fidelity continuum modelling on GPUs with Nektar++

Nektar++ (https://gitlab.nektar.info/nektar/nektar/) is a modern open-source spectral/hp element framework for the high-fidelity numerical solution of partial differential equations, based on high-order spectral/hp element methods. It is a flagship code of...

MONC GPU Acceleration

The Met Office NERC Cloud model (MONC) is a Fortran 2003 toolkit for high resolution atmospheric simulation. Initially developed by the Met Office and EPCC, this model has become popular...

Accelerating Gravitational Lens Modelling

We will port existing CPU codes used for modelling strong lensing by galaxies, to accelerate them with GPUs. This will enable future astrophysics and cosmology with large samples of gravitational...

GLASS: A GPU-enabled ecosystem for simulating the universe

The proposed project turns GLASS, the Generator for Large Scale Structure, into a modern Python GPU code. GLASS is a unique code used in the field of Cosmology to create...

GCRYSTAL - A GPU enabled CRYSTAL

The work is to produce a production quality GPU enabled version of CRYSTAL, a general purpose electronic structure application. Being such a flexible package the work can potentially impact a...

GPU Acceleration of Phonon Calculations with CASTEP

CASTEP is the UK’s leading materials modelling software, using density functional theory (DFT) to predict materials’ properties. The current focus is on accelerating CASTEP’s performance on GPU-based high-performance computing systems....