https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202024509001
Enabling validated exascale nuclear science
United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, OX14 3DB
* e-mail: andrew.davis@ukaea.uk
Published online: 16 November 2020
The field of fusion energy is about to enter the ITER era, for the first time we will have access to a device capable of producing 500 MW of fusion power, with plasmas lasting more than 300 seconds and with core temperatures in excess of 100-200 Million K. Engineering simulation for fusion, sits in an awkward position, a mixture of commercial and licensed tools are used, often with email driven transfer of data. In order to address the engineering simulation challenges of the future, the community must address simulation in a much more tightly coupled ecosystem, with a set of tools that can scale to take advantage of current petascale and upcoming exascale systems to address the design challenges of the ITER era.
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