Description of need

This software should be flexible, modular, and work on modern computer architectures. It should also be expandable.

According to Theresa Wilks, I would be appalled by some of the code that plasma scientists run. You need apprenticeship to learn how to use these codes.

Problem severity (1-10)

6

Who has this need

Nuclear fusion industry

Total addressable market (TAM)

Solutions today, and their shortcomings

  • OMFIT is an open-source, integrated modeling framework developed by an ex-MIT person (Orso Meneghini) at General Atomics. He is working closely with ITER. You can deploy simulations locally or on remote servers. It is mostly a Python wrapper on the old codes.

Potentially relevant capabilities

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