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Idaho National Laboratory has brought its newest high‑performance supercomputer, named Teton, online and made it available to users through the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Science User Facilities program. The system, now the flagship machine in the lab’s Collaborative Computing Center, quadruples INL’s total computing capacity and enters service as the 85th fastest supercomputer in the world.
S. Sasanka Kumar, M. K. Jayaraj, Ajai Kumar, Ravi A. V. Kumar
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 64 | Number 1 | July 2013 | Pages 54-62
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A17047
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Elemental compositional analysis was carried out on various portions (edges to center) of the film on the ADITYA tokamak window using X-ray diffraction, energy-dispersive X-ray analysis, scanning electron microscopy, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Optical transmission studies were carried out at various points along the length and breadth of the film. An automated tabletop setup was developed for cleaning the coating by back-side etching using an Nd:yttrium aluminum garnet laser operated at its second and third harmonics. Various experimental parameters were optimized so as to restore maximum transmission for the window. It was observed that a wavelength of 355 nm at an energy density of 1275 mJ/cm2 and at a repetition rate of 10 Hz was found to be best suited for this application. It was possible to restore the transmission of the coated portion to the transmission level of bare window portions using this setup.