The role of High Performance Computing in the Nuclear Energy Sector
High Performance Computing (HPC) plays an ever increasing role in the today’s world. It enables one to model the behaviour of systems, components and structures under various load scenarios, perform complex simulations and test hypotheses. The nuclear energy sector exploits HPC in practically all domains: from research and education to improving nuclear power plant designs, safe operation of nuclear power plants, plant life management for safe long term operation, reducing probability of nuclear accidents and their mitigation. Furthermore, HPC is widely used by academia, research institutes, vendors and authorities.
The current paper presents the basic reasons for ever increasing HPC use in the energy field. Evolution of the HPC resources both at the Institute for Energy and Transport (IET) of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission and Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI), Slovenia, is given. Furthermore, the complexity of successfully setting up such compute resources and providing support to the end-users of the computing facilities is highlighted. The paper concludes with a number of examples of applications in nuclear energy sector and wider.
SIMONOVSKI Igor;
CLEMENTS John;
ŽEFRAN Bojan;
CIMERMAN Sandi;
2016-02-02
Nuclear Society of Slovenia
JRC97395
978-961-6207-38-6,
http://www.nss.si/nene2015/files/BOA-as-per-Sept14-2015.pdf,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC97395,
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