Advances in parallel computing for reactor analysis and safety

Abstract

Comfn&r simulation is recognized as a critic@ technolopy, playing a major role in many area.9 of national interest, such as increasing the efficiency and safety of nuclear reactors, improving the efficiency of car engines or predicting weather patterns and global climate changes. In recent years, rapid changes in computing technology have inrreased the computing power available to computer simulation $w+ofeessionak. The advent of massively parallel computers and disti'buted computing networks has accelerated this trend, which is sure to continue in the foreseeableji&ure. The development of largescale computational applications needed for the solution of practical probbms is beginning, relatizwly slowly, to take advantage of available parallel computing technology. A.M.