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NEA-1467 KENO-VA-PVM; KENO-VA

KENO-VA-PVM KENO-VA-SM, KENO5A for Parallel Processors

NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM, COMPUTER, DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM OR FUNCTION, METHOD OF SOLUTION, RESTRICTIONS, CPU, FEATURES, RELATED AND AUXILIARY PROGRAMS, STATUS, REFERENCES, MACHINE REQUIREMENTS, LANGUAGE, OPERATING SYSTEM, OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS, NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHORS, MATERIAL, CATEGORIES
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1. NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM:  KENO-VA-PVM; KENO-VA-SM.
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2. COMPUTERS
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Program name Package id Status Status date
KENO-VA-SM NEA-1467/01 Arrived 28-FEB-2002
KENO-VA-PVM NEA-1467/02 Arrived 28-FEB-2002

Machines used:

Package ID Orig. computer Test computer
NEA-1467/01 CONVEX C3
NEA-1467/02 HP 9000
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3. DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM OR FUNCTION

This package contains versions  KENO-Va-SM (Shared Memory version) and KENO-Va-PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine version) based on SCALE-4.1. KENO-Va three-dimensional Boltzmann transport equation for neutron multiplying systems. The primary purpose of KENO-Va is to determine k-effective. Other calculated quantities include lifetime and generation time, energy-dependent leakages, energy- and region-dependent absorptions, fissions, fluxes, and fission densities.
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4. METHOD OF SOLUTION:  KENO-Va employs the Monte Carlo technique.
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5. RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM
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6. TYPICAL RUNNING TIME
NEA-1467/01
As for the scalar original (scalar) version of KENO-Va  CPU time is problem-dependent. It is slightly larger compared to the scalar code but wall clock time can be drastically reduced due to the inherent parallelism (about 95% of coding is parallel). The present version was executed in a four processors computer in single-user mode and the speed-up achieved was 3.5.

NEA-1467/02
As for the scalar original (scalar) version of KENO-Va  CPU time is problem-dependent. It is slightly larger compared to the scalar code but wall clock time can be drastically reduced due to the inherent parallelism (about 95% of coding is parallel). The present version was executed in a FDDI cluster of six HP9000/735 using the message-passing library PVM. A shipping case was studied and mapped in such a way that the master was running in one node and five slave programs were executing in the rest of the network nodes. The speed-up obtained was 3.6.
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7. UNUSUAL FEATURES: UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM
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8. RELATED AND AUXILIARY PROGRAMS:  SCALE 4.1 system.
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9. STATUS
Package ID Status date Status
NEA-1467/01 28-FEB-2002 Masterfiled Arrived
NEA-1467/02 28-FEB-2002 Masterfiled Arrived
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10. REFERENCES

- L.M. Petrie and N.F. Lansers:
"KENO5A - An improved Monte Carlo Critically Program with
Supergrouping" Volume 2, Section F11 from "SCALE - A Modular Code
System for Performing Standardized Computer Analyses for Licensing Evaluation"
NUREG/CR-0200 Rev. 2 (ORNL/NUREG/CSD-2/R2) (December 1984)
NEA-1467/01, included references:
- J. Ramon and J. Pena:
  Parallelization of KENO-Va at the CSN
  (October 1994)
- J.R. Camarma:
  Paralelizacion en Memoria Compartida de KENO-Va
  (Oct. 5, 1994)
NEA-1467/02, included references:
- J. Ramon and J. Pena:
  Parallelization of KENO-Va at the CSN
  (October 1994)
- J.R. Camarma:
  Paralelizacion en Memoria Compartida de KENO-Va
  (Oct. 5, 1994)
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11. MACHINE REQUIREMENTS

NEA 1467/01: CONVEX C3 series with several CPUs sharing central memory. typical cases will require a main memory of a few Mbytes.
NEA-1467/02
Cluster of six HP9000/735.
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12. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE(S) USED
Package ID Computer language
NEA-1467/01 FORTRAN-77
NEA-1467/02 FORTRAN-77
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13. SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS: OPERATING SYSTEM UNDER WHICH PROGRAM IS EXECUTED
NEA-1467/01
ConvexOS v10.1

NEA-1467/02
HP-UX v9.01
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14. OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS

NEA 1467/02: This version requires the PVM public domain message-passing library not supplied with the package.
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15. NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHORS

Javier Ramon and Jorge Pena
Consejo de Seguridad Nuclear
Justo Dorado, 11
28040 Madrid
SPAIN
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16. MATERIAL AVAILABLE
NEA-1467/01
miscellaneous    mag tapeREADME Information file on installation    MISTP
source program   mag tapeSources of SCALE driver, CSAS25 & KENO-Va  SRCTP
source program   mag tapeSource of the program                      SRCTP
bin data lib     mag tapeX-section lib. XN27 & libraries            LBBTP
test-case data   mag tapeMakefiles                                  DATTP
test-case data   mag tapeInput cases                                DATTP
test-case output mag tapeOutput data                                OUTTP
report                   PARALLELIZATION OF KENO-VA (October 1994)  REPPT
report                   PARALELIZACION EN MEMORIA... (Oct. 5, 1994)REPPT

NEA-1467/02
miscellaneous    mag tapeREADME Information file on installation    MISTP
source program   mag tapeSources of SCALE driver, CSAS25 & KENO-Va  SRCTP
source program   mag tapeSource of the program                      SRCTP
bin data lib     mag tapeX-section lib. XN27 & libraries            LBBTP
test-case data   mag tapeMakefiles                                  DATTP
test-case data   mag tapeInput cases                                DATTP
test-case output mag tapeOutput data                                OUTTP
report                   PARALLELIZATION OF KENO-VA (October 1994)  REPPT
report                   PARALELIZACION EN MEMORIA... (Oct. 5, 1994)REPPT
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17. CATEGORIES
  • C. Static Design Studies

Keywords: Monte Carlo method, adsorption, criticality, fission, lifetime, multigroup, reactivity, statistics, three-dimensional, transport theory, x-y-z.