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The Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors Virtual Meeting
Technical Session|Panel|Sponsored by Physics Integration
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|2:40–4:20PM EST|3
Session Chair:
Rob Lefebvre (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Brendan Kochunas (Univ. of Michigan)
Session Organizer:
Scott Palmtag (NC State Univ.)
Staff Producer:
Thomas Folk (Univ. of Michigan)
The development and deployment of the VERA suite in the CASL program necessarily integrated a multi-institutional, multi-language set of tools for deployment to the nuclear industry. At the heart of this effort was the software infrastructure team who was charged with integrating these capabilities, ensuring all of the components work together, and packaging up VERA for release using an agile development process. This panel will discuss the various capabilities that have been developed over CASL to support this mission along with the impacts of having this infrastructure on the development teams, university researchers, and industry collaborators
Rob Lefebvre
ORNL
Brendan Kochunas
Univ. Michigan
Ross Bartlett
Sandia
Cody Permann
INL
Brenden Mervin
EPRI
Mark Baird
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