The work of the Theoretical Astrophysics Group relies heavily on high performance computing for numerical simulations and data analysis. The group are members of the DiRAC Distributed facility, funded by STFC & BIS.

In 2010, the University of Leicester completed a large new HPC facility  (called ALICE) with 2048 processor cores and 3TB of memory. The system has been provided by the University for scientific research purposes and is available campus-wide. All members of the the Theoretical Astrophysics group are able to avail of high priority access to the cluster following the award of a £300k BIS grant to DiRAC to support the HPC requirements of the TA group and which was used to enhance the specifications of the system. Our group has an ambitious program of numerical simulations which will take full advantage of this new facility. All students will be given access to this state of the art cluster in order to carry out the numerical work associated with their phd projects.

Further details of the ALICE facility are available here.