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Commercial nuclear innovation "new space" age
In early 2006, a start-up company launched a small rocket from a tiny island in the Pacific. It exploded, showering the island with debris. A year later, a second launch attempt sent a rocket to space but failed to make orbit, burning up in the atmosphere. Another year brought a third attempt—and a third failure. The following month, in September 2008, the company used the last of its funds to launch a fourth rocket. It reached orbit, making history as the first privately funded liquid-fueled rocket to do so.
Milo R. Dorr, Charles H. Still
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 122 | Number 3 | March 1996 | Pages 287-308
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE96-A24166
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A strategy for implementing source iteration on massively parallel computers for use in solving multigroup discrete ordinates neutron transport equations on three-dimensional Cartesian grids is proposed and analyzed. Based on an analysis of the memory requirement and floating-point complexity of the formal matrix-vector multiplication effected by a single source iteration, a data decomposition and communication strategy is presented that is designed to achieve good scalability with respect to all phase-space variables, i.e., neutron position, energy, and direction. A performance model is developed to analyze the scalability properties of the algorithm and to provide computational and heuristic strategies for determining a data decomposition that minimizes wall clock execution time. Numerical results are presented to demonstrate the performance of a specific implementation of this approach on a 1024-node nCUBE/2.