Enabling high-fidelity neutron transport simulations on petascale architectures

Proceedings of the Conference on High Performance Computing Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Kaushik, Dinesh ^a   Smith, Micheal ^a   Wollaber, Allan ^a   Smith, Barry ^a   Siegel, Andrew ^a   Yang, Won Sik ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrete ordinates; Memory bandwidth; Neutron transport; Nuclear reactors; Parallel scalability

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MODELING; COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE; COMPUTING PLATFORM; DEGREES OF FREEDOM; DIRECT SOLUTION METHOD; DISCRETE ORDINATES; ENERGY GROUPS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES; HIGH FIDELITY; HIGH-FIDELITY SIMULATIONS; LOAD-BALANCING; LONG-TERM GOALS; MATRIX; MEMORY BANDWIDTHS; MEMORY RESOURCES; MULTI-GRID; MULTI-PHYSICS; NEUTRON TRANSPORT; NEUTRON TRANSPORT EQUATION; ON CURRENTS; OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS; PARALLEL EFFICIENCY; PARALLEL MACHINE; PARALLEL SCALABILITY; PETASCALE; PRECONDITIONERS; PROBLEM SIZE; PROCESSOR PERFORMANCE; REACTOR DESIGNS; REACTOR SIMULATION; SIMULATION RESULT;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NEUTRONS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR PROPULSION; OPTIMIZATION; REACTOR SHUTDOWNS; SCALABILITY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

COUPLED CIRCUITS;

EID: 74049110481     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1654059.1654128     Document Type: Conference Paper

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