A not-so-short description of the PERFECT platform

This article describes the building of the so-called ‘PERFECT platform’, which main issue was to allow the development of the PERFECT end-products dedicated to the prediction of the degradation of material properties due to irradiation. First, the general principles used to build the platform are detailed. Such principles guided the choices of preferential development language, architecture, and operating system. The architecture of the platform is then described. It allows an easy development of the end-products, and a ‘black-box’ integration of the codes developed during the project. Each end-product can be seen as a sequence of modules, each module representing a physical phenomenon in time and space. The platform is very flexible, so that different methodologies can be tested and compared inside an end-product. The second part is devoted to the description of a classical PERFECT study, defined thanks to the graphical user interface developed in the project. Focus is made in particular on how a selection of modules is done, how the input data can be entered, and how the study execution is fully controlled by the user. A final description of the post-processing facilities on the results is exposed.