Title :
A Grid Version of the Fusion Code FAFNER
Author :
Rodriguez-Pascual, Manuel A ; Guasp, José ; Castejon, Francisco ; Rubio-Montero, Antonio J. ; Llorente, Ignacio M. ; Mayo, Rafael
Author_Institution :
CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain
Abstract :
FAFNER is code developed by Lister which simulates by Monte Carlo methods the Neutral Beam Injection (NBI) technology, one of the most extended heating methods for fusion devices. To the date, FAFNER has been usually run at CIEMAT adapted to the TJ-II helical axis stellarator on shared memory Cray architecture machines. From this version, FAFNER has been ported to the Grid in the framework of the EGEE Project. At the same time, this work is the first step of a more ambitious target since the code can be now coupled to many others such as ion transport tools. In this paper, all these preliminary advances are described as well as the performance and portability gains obtained.
Keywords :
grid computing; software architecture; Cray architecture machines; Monte Carlo methods; TJ-II helical axis stellarator; fusion code FAFNER; grid version; ion transport tools; neutral beam injection; Fusion reactor design; Fusion reactors; Grid computing; Heating; Monte Carlo methods; Particle beams; Plasma applications; Plasma devices; Plasma simulation; Structural beams; Grid applications; NBI heating;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing (PDP), 2010 18th Euromicro International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Pisa
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5672-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1066-6192
DOI :
10.1109/PDP.2010.37