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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.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 53 | Number 2 | February 2008 | Pages 443-458
Technical Paper | Fusion Reactor Issues | doi.org/10.13182/FST08-A1730
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The total amount of heating power coupled to the plasma Ptot and the energy confinement time are determining parameters for realizing the plasma conditions suitable for the reactor.
