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Prospects for CVR-0: A Prototype of China Virtual Reactor

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High-Performance Computing Applications in Numerical Simulation and Edge Computing (HPCMS 2018, HiDEC 2018)

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Abstract

A virtual nuclear reactor is a simulation environment, which has lately received great attention due to its contributions to improving nuclear safety and extending the life of the world’s aging nuclear fleet at low cost. CVR-0, the prototype of China Virtual Reactor, is a virtual nuclear reactor being developed for Generation-III and Generation-IV reactors. The CVR program was established for the purpose of performing multi-physics simulations on high-fidelity geometry at large spatial and temporal scales and leveraging the next-generation supercomputers under development in China. Recent efforts to develop the simulation capabilities of CVR-0 has been made to achieve the near-term goal. In this work, we propose the main focuses and preliminary architecture of CVR-0. The overall goals and milestones of the CVR program are given in brief, as well as the estimated computational resources required for high-fidelity simulations. The estimates indicate that improving parallel efficiency on supercomputers remains an ongoing challenge due to the large scale of full-core calculations.

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This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2017YFB0202303 and No. 2017YFB0202300).

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    An Wang, Changjun Hu, Zhaoshun Wang, Xianmeng Wang, Lingyu Yang & Dandan Chen

  2. Beijing Key Laboratory of Knowledge Engineering for Material Science, Beijing, China

    An Wang, Changjun Hu, Xianmeng Wang, Lingyu Yang & Dandan Chen

  3. China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing, 102413, China

    Wen Yang, Tiancai Liu, Xuesong Wang, Hongwei Yang & Mingyu Wu

  4. Computer Network Information Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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Wang, A. et al. (2019). Prospects for CVR-0: A Prototype of China Virtual Reactor. In: Hu, C., Yang, W., Jiang, C., Dai, D. (eds) High-Performance Computing Applications in Numerical Simulation and Edge Computing. HPCMS HiDEC 2018 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 913. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9987-0_10

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