Computer Programs

NEA-0474 MISSIONARY.

NEA-0474 MISSIONARY.

MISSIONARY, ENDF/B to UKNDL Format Conversion

NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM, COMPUTER, NATURE OF PHYSICAL PROBLEM SOLVED, METHOD OF SOLUTION, RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM, TYPICAL RUNNING TIME, UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM, RELATED AND AUXILIARY PROGRAMS, STATUS, REFERENCES, MACHINE REQUIREMENTS, LANGUAGE, OPERATING SYSTEM OR MONITOR UNDER WHICH PROGRAM IS EXECUTED, ANY OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS, NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHOR, MATERIAL, CATEGORIES

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1. NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM: MISSIONARY.

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2. COMPUTERS

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Program name	Package id	Status	Status date
MISSIONARY	NEA-0474/03	Tested	01-JUL-1977

Machines used:

Package ID	Orig. computer	Test computer
NEA-0474/03	IBM 370 series	IBM 370 series

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3. NATURE OF PHYSICAL PROBLEM SOLVED: Converts nuclear data from US ENDF/B to UK NDL format.

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4. METHOD OF SOLUTION

Generates tabulations from parametric forms. Deletes surplus points from tabulations.

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5. RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM

Reich-Moore and Adler-Adler resonance formulae are not processed. Temperature dependence is ignored. Inelastic scattering is allowed to only 30 discrete levels. There are various storage restrictions which would require recompilation to overcome. The most stringent of these is that a cross section is limited to 5000 data points including those interpolated by the program.

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6. TYPICAL RUNNING TIME

On an IBM 360/75, using CPU time as a measure, a file without resonances is converted in a few minutes. A material with many resonances is converted in a few tens of minutes. Doppler broadening of the data increases the running time a great deal.

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7. UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM

Having generated a copy of the ENDF/B data in a form suitable for the NDL, the program allows great flexibility in specifying the accuracy of the final file.

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8. RELATED AND AUXILIARY PROGRAMS

Any of the ENDF/B or NDL manipulation programs can be considered related.

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9. STATUS

Package ID	Status date	Status
NEA-0474/03	01-JUL-1977	Tested at NEADB

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10. REFERENCES: - AWRE Report O-17/76.

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11. MACHINE REQUIREMENTS

At least 200k of IBM/360 storage. Input and output streams. Normally tape units for the ENDF/B tape input and NDL tape output although these could be discs. Uses very many input/output streams for temporary storage. These could be tapes but so many are required that disks would normally be used. A clock routine is used simply for labelling the output.

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12. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE(S) USED

Package ID	Computer language
NEA-0474/03	FORTRAN+ASSEMBLER

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13. OPERATING SYSTEM OR MONITOR UNDER WHICH PROGRAM IS EXECUTED: IBM OS/360 with MFT or MVT, VS2.

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14. ANY OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS

The program is only of use in converting ENDF/B files. These are not supplied.

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15. NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHOR

      J. Cameron
      MOD(PE) AWRE
      Building R61.1
      Atomic Weapons Research Establishment
      Aldermaston, Reading RG7 4PR
      U.K.

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16. MATERIAL AVAILABLE

NEA-0474/03

source program   mag tape                                           SRCTP
test-case data   mag tape                                           DATTP
test-case output mag tape                                           OUTTP
symb data lib    mag tape                                           LBSTP
aux program      mag tape                                           AUXTP
report                                                              REPPT

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17. CATEGORIES

M. Data Management

Keywords: Doppler broadening, ENDF/B, UKNDL, cross sections, data processing, inelastic scattering.