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Structured hints : extracting and abstracting domain expertise.

Description: We propose a new framework for providing information to help optimize domain-specific application codes. Its design addresses problems that derive from the widening gap between the domain problem statement by domain experts and the architectural details of new and future high-end computing systems. The design is particularly well suited to program execution models that incorporate dynamic adaptive methodologies for live tuning of program performance and resource utilization. This new framework,… more
Date: March 16, 2009
Creator: Hereld, M.; Stevens, R.; Sterling, T.; Gao, G. R.; Science, Mathematics and Computer; Tech., California Inst. of et al.
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Perspectives on distributed computing : thirty people, four user types, and the distributed computing user experience.

Description: This report summarizes the methodology and results of a user perspectives study conducted by the Community Driven Improvement of Globus Software (CDIGS) project. The purpose of the study was to document the work-related goals and challenges facing today's scientific technology users, to record their perspectives on Globus software and the distributed-computing ecosystem, and to provide recommendations to the Globus community based on the observations. Globus is a set of open source software com… more
Date: October 15, 2008
Creator: Childers, L.; Liming, L.; Foster, I.; Science, Mathematics and Computer & Chicago, Univ. of
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Provenance management in Swift with implementation details.

Description: The Swift parallel scripting language allows for the specification, execution and analysis of large-scale computations in parallel and distributed environments. It incorporates a data model for recording and querying provenance information. In this article we describe these capabilities and evaluate interoperability with other systems through the use of the Open Provenance Model. We describe Swift's provenance data model and compare it to the Open Provenance Model. We also describe and evaluate… more
Date: April 1, 2011
Creator: Gadelha, L. M. R.; Clifford, B.; Mattoso, M.; Wilde, M.; Foster, I. & Janeiro), (Federal Univ. of Rio de
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Support vector machine classifiers for large data sets.

Description: This report concerns the generation of support vector machine classifiers for solving the pattern recognition problem in machine learning. Several methods are proposed based on interior point methods for convex quadratic programming. Software implementations are developed by adapting the object-oriented packaging OOQP to the problem structure and by using the software package PETSc to perform time-intensive computations in a distributed setting. Linear systems arising from classification proble… more
Date: January 31, 2006
Creator: Gertz, E. M. & Griffin, J. D.
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Virtual venue management users manual : access grid toolkit documentation, version 2.3.

Description: An Access Grid Venue Server provides access to individual Virtual Venues, virtual spaces where users can collaborate using the Access Grid Venue Client software. This manual describes the Venue Server component of the Access Grid Toolkit, version 2.3. Covered here are the basic operations of starting a venue server, modifying its configuration, and modifying the configuration of the individual venues.
Date: October 24, 2007
Creator: Judson, I. R.; Lefvert, S.; Olson, E.; Uram, T. D. & Science, Mathematics and Computer
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Optimal explicit strong-stability-preserving general linear methods : complete results.

Description: This paper constructs strong-stability-preserving general linear time-stepping methods that are well suited for hyperbolic PDEs discretized by the method of lines. These methods generalize both Runge-Kutta (RK) and linear multistep schemes. They have high stage orders and hence are less susceptible than RK methods to order reduction from source terms or nonhomogeneous boundary conditions. A global optimization strategy is used to find the most efficient schemes that have low storage requirement… more
Date: March 3, 2009
Creator: Constantinescu, E. M.; Sandu, A.; Science, Mathematics and Computer & Univ., Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State
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GRiP - A flexible approach for calculating risk as a function of consequence, vulnerability, and threat.

Description: Get a GRiP (Gravitational Risk Procedure) on risk by using an approach inspired by the physics of gravitational forces between body masses! In April 2010, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Special Events staff (Protective Security Advisors [PSAs]) expressed concern about how to calculate risk given measures of consequence, vulnerability, and threat. The PSAs believed that it is not 'right' to assign zero risk, as a multiplicative formula would imply, to cases in which the threat is reported … more
Date: April 8, 2011
Creator: Whitfield, R. G.; Buehring, W. A. & Bassett, G. W. (Decision and Information Sciences)
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Impact of post-event avoidance behavior on commercial facilities sector venues-literature review.

Description: The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 (9/11), focused a great deal of interest and concern on how individual and social perceptions of risk change behavior and subsequently affect commercial sector venues. Argonne conducted a review of the literature to identify studies that quantify the direct and indirect economic consequences of avoidance behaviors that result from terrorist attacks. Despite a growing amount of literature addressing terrorism impacts, relatively little is known about t… more
Date: March 24, 2011
Creator: Samsa, M. E.; Baldwin, T. E.; Berry, M. S.; Guzowski, L. B.; Martinez-Moyano, I.; Nieves, A. L. et al.
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Feasibility analyses for HEU to LEU fuel conversion of the LAUE Langivin Institute (ILL) High Flux Reactor (RHF).

Description: The High Flux Reactor (RHF) of the Laue Langevin Institute (ILL) based in Grenoble, France is a research reactor designed primarily for neutron beam experiments for fundamental science. It delivers one of the most intense neutron fluxes worldwide, with an unperturbed thermal neutron flux of 1.5 x 10{sup 15} n/cm{sup 2}/s in its reflector. The reactor has been conceived to operate at a nuclear power of 57 MW but currently operates at 52 MW. The reactor currently uses a Highly Enriched Uranium (H… more
Date: August 19, 2010
Creator: Stevens, J.; A., Tentner.; Bergeron, A. & Division, Nuclear Engineering
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The Model of Optimization of Micro Energy; HOMER: El Modelo de Optimizacin de Micro energa

Description: HOMER, the model of optimization of micro energy, helps to disear systems out of the network and interconnected to the network. You can use HOMER to carry out the analysis to explore an extensive rank of questions of diseo. HOMER, el modelo de optimizacin de micro energa, le ayuda a disear sistemas fuera de la red e interconectados a la red. Usted puede usar HOMER para llevar a cabo el anlisis para explorar un amplio rango de preguntas de diseo.
Date: May 1, 2004
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Status report on high fidelity reactor simulation.

Description: This report presents the effort under way at Argonne National Laboratory toward a comprehensive, integrated computational tool intended mainly for the high-fidelity simulation of sodium-cooled fast reactors. The main activities carried out involved neutronics, thermal hydraulics, coupling strategies, software architecture, and high-performance computing. A new neutronics code, UNIC, is being developed. The first phase involves the application of a spherical harmonics method to a general, unstru… more
Date: December 11, 2006
Creator: Palmiotti, G.; Smith, M.; Rabiti, C.; Lewis, E.; Yang, W.; Leclere,M. et al.
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Status report on SHARP coupling framework.

Description: This report presents the software engineering effort under way at ANL towards a comprehensive integrated computational framework (SHARP) for high fidelity simulations of sodium cooled fast reactors. The primary objective of this framework is to provide accurate and flexible analysis tools to nuclear reactor designers by simulating multiphysics phenomena happening in complex reactor geometries. Ideally, the coupling among different physics modules (such as neutronics, thermal-hydraulics, and str… more
Date: May 30, 2008
Creator: Caceres, A.; Tautges, T. J.; Lottes, J.; Fischer, P.; Rabiti, C.; Smith, M. A. et al.
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Weather forecast-based optimization of integrated energy systems.

Description: In this work, we establish an on-line optimization framework to exploit detailed weather forecast information in the operation of integrated energy systems, such as buildings and photovoltaic/wind hybrid systems. We first discuss how the use of traditional reactive operation strategies that neglect the future evolution of the ambient conditions can translate in high operating costs. To overcome this problem, we propose the use of a supervisory dynamic optimization strategy that can lead to more… more
Date: March 1, 2009
Creator: Zavala, V. M.; Constantinescu, E. M.; Krause, T. & Anitescu, M.
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Progress report on development of intermediate fidelity full assembly analysis methods.

Description: While high fidelity modeling capabilities for various physics phenomena are being pursued under advanced modeling and simulation initiatives under the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy, they generally rely on high-performance computation facilities and are too expensive to be used for parameter-space exploration or design analysis. One-dimensional system codes have been used for a long time and have reached a degree of maturity, but limit their validity to specific applications. Thus, an intermediat… more
Date: September 30, 2011
Creator: Hu, R. & Fanning, T. H. (Nuclear Engineering Division)
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Status report on multigroup cross section generation code development for high-fidelity deterministic neutronics simulation system.

Description: Under the fast reactor simulation program launched in April 2007, development of an advanced multigroup cross section generation code was initiated in July 2007, in conjunction with the development of the high-fidelity deterministic neutron transport code UNIC. The general objectives are to simplify the existing multi-step schemes and to improve the resolved and unresolved resonance treatments. Based on the review results of current methods and the fact that they have been applied successfully … more
Date: May 16, 2008
Creator: Yang, W. S. & Lee, C. H. (Nuclear Engineering Division)
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The Market Viability of Nuclear Hydrogen Technologies.

Description: The Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy is supporting system studies to gain a better understanding of nuclear power's potential role in a hydrogen economy and what hydrogen production technologies show the most promise. This assessment includes identifying commercial hydrogen applications and their requirements, comparing the characteristics of nuclear hydrogen systems to those market requirements, evaluating nuclear hydrogen configuration options within a given market, and identifyi… more
Date: April 6, 2007
Creator: Botterud, A.; Conzelmann, G.; Petri, M. C. & Yildiz, B.
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A validation study of existing neutronics tools against ZPPR-21 and ZPPR-15 critical experiments.

Description: A study was performed to validate the existing tools for fast reactor neutronics analysis against previous critical experiments. The six benchmark problems for the ZPPR-21 critical experiments phases A through F specified in the Handbook of Evaluated Criticality Safety Benchmark Experiments were analyzed. Analysis was also performed for three loading configurations of the ZPPR-15 Phase A experiments. As-built core models were developed in XYZ geometries using the reactor loading records and dra… more
Date: September 30, 2007
Creator: Yang, W.S. & Kim, S.J. (Nuclear Engineering Division)
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Well-To-Wheels Analysis of Landfill Gas-Based Pathways and Their Addition to the Greet Model.

Description: Today, approximately 300 million standard cubic ft/day (mmscfd) of natural gas and 1600 MW of electricity are produced from the decomposition of organic waste at 519 U.S. landfills (EPA 2010a). Since landfill gas (LFG) is a renewable resource, this energy is considered renewable. When used as a vehicle fuel, compressed natural gas (CNG) produced from LFG consumes up to 185,000 Btu of fossil fuel and generates from 1.5 to 18.4 kg of carbon dioxide-equivalent (CO{sub 2}e) emissions per million Bt… more
Date: June 30, 2010
Creator: Mintz, M.; Han, J.; Wang, M.; Saricks, C. & Systems, Energy
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