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8 May 2008:
Gateway - new computing facility for tokamak modelling
The EFDA's Task Force on Integrated Tokamak Modelling (ITM) has an aim of providing the EU fusion specialists with sufficient,
flexible suite of reliable software tools and codes necessary for emulation, preparation and analysis of future ITER discharges.
To supply the needed hardware and software resources, EFDA has launched the Gateway Project. Gateway is the group's first joined computing facility;
it was projected to allow the task force members to work together on a common platform and share their codes, development tools and technologies.
Technically Gateway is a rather small (1 TFlops) installation which is not meant for massive computation but, however, more than sufficient for development activities.
The facility is co-fundend by EFDA and ENEA. It is hosted at ENEA/CRESCO premise in Portici (Naples).
The Gateway cluster is composed of 3 computing nodes as front end system, where users can log on in an interactive way and 16 worker nodes able to run parallel applications
for tokamak modelling. The front-end nodes may be accessed by ITM users through the unique dynamic "gateaway.efda-itm.eu" address. More details about Gateway architecture
can be found at the website www.efda-itm.eu.
The EURATOM-ENEA Association installed and manages the hardware/software resources of Gateway that includes:
- Access to a shared storage data area of ~100 TByte
- Access to computing resources of ~1 Tflops
- Free access, for a limited time, to HPC CRESCO, ENEA's supercomputer (25 Tflops peak rate) for scalability tests and benchmarking
The Gateway has 4 years operation period from 2008 to 2011. The operation is provided by ENEA with full scale system support of CASPUR.
The facility has been completed on the scheduled time (4 months) and it will be updated in few months when the high performance computing
cluster will be equipped with AMD QuadCore Barcelona processors.
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10 March 2008:
Introducing fusion in UN students conference
Over seven hundred high school students from all over the world got together in New York on 6-7 March for an annual student UNIS (United Nations International School) conference.
The conference, whose theme this year was 'Energy, a source of conflict', took place in the General Assembly Hall in the headquarters of the United Nations.
Professor Niek Lopes Cardozo, head of the nuclear fusion research at the FOM-Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen made the opening speech at the conference.
He presented a version of the Fusion Road Show, an interactive presentation of issues of energy and fusion which reaches some 2000 Dutch students each year, and then joined the students in the debate.
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5 February 2008:
Winner of 2007 Nuclear Fusion award named
The International Atomic Energy Agency has awarded second time a prize called "Nuclear Fusion award" to honour exceptional work published in the journal Nuclear Fusion.
The winner of the 2007 Nuclear Fusion award is C. Angioni for the paper 'Density response to central electron heating: theoretical investigations and experimental observations in ASDEX Upgrade' (Nuclear Fusion 44 (8) pp. 827-845).
Each year, ten papers are short-listed for the Nuclear Fusion award. These are papers of the highest scientific standard, published in the journal volume from two years previous to the award year. Nominations are based on citation record and recommendation by the Board of Editors. The Board votes by secret ballot to determine which of these papers has made the largest scientific impact.
The winning paper is freely available to read online at this page until 31 July 2008.
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