Laboratorio Nacional de Fusión: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
No edit summary |
|||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
The National Fusion Laboratory is part of [[CIEMAT]]. | The National Fusion Laboratory is part of [[CIEMAT]]. | ||
| Line 53: | Line 52: | ||
The Laboratory has organised many events, among which: | The Laboratory has organised many events, among which: | ||
* [http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0920379601005865 The 21 | * [http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0920379601005865 The 21<sup>st</sup> Symposium on Fusion Technology] (SOFT, 2000) | ||
* [http://www-fusion.ciemat.es/ttf2002 The 9 | * [http://www-fusion.ciemat.es/ttf2002 The 9<sup>th</sup> EU-US Transport Task Force Meeting] (TTF, 2002) | ||
* [http://eps2005.ciemat.es The 32 | * [http://eps2005.ciemat.es The 32<sup>nd</sup> European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics] (EPS, 2005) | ||
* [http://www-fusion.ciemat.es/SW2005/ The 15 | * [http://www-fusion.ciemat.es/SW2005/ The 15<sup>th</sup> International Stellarator Workshop] (ISW, 2005) | ||
* [http://plasma2.ulb.ac.be/EFTC/Documents_EFTC12_191206SHORT_MADRID/index.html The 12 | * [http://plasma2.ulb.ac.be/EFTC/Documents_EFTC12_191206SHORT_MADRID/index.html The 12<sup>th</sup> European Fusion Theory Conference] (EFTC, 2008) | ||
* [http://psi2008.ciemat.es/ The 18 | * [http://psi2008.ciemat.es/ The 18<sup>th</sup> Conference on Plasma Surface Interactions] (PSI, 2008) | ||
* [http://www-fusion.ciemat.es/ttg2010/ The 3 | * [http://www-fusion.ciemat.es/ttg2010/ The 3<sup>rd</sup> EFDA Transport Topical Group meeting and 15<sup>th</sup> EU-US Transport Task Force Meeting] (TTG-TTF, 2010) | ||
== External Links == | == External Links == | ||
Revision as of 12:21, 24 November 2010
The National Fusion Laboratory is part of CIEMAT.
The Laboratory is dedicated to the development of fusion by magnetic confinement as a future energy generation option. Research is mainly centered on the Flexible Heliac TJ-II, and on materials studies.
History
In 1975, a research group is created at the JEN (later to become CIEMAT) to study the subject of fusion. In 1983, the small tokamak TJ-I is taken into operation, followed by the torsatron TJ-IU in 1994, and the flexible heliac TJ-II in 1999.
Organization
Organization and personnel
Projects and research
Computer resources
Due to the large computational needs of the Laboratory, it makes use of both internal and external resources through collaborations:
- The CIEMAT computing centre, with the following computers:
- JEN50 (SGI Origin system, already phased out)
- Lince (HPC cluster)
- Fenix (SGI Altix system w/ Itanium processors, currently being phased out)
- Euler (Dell HPC cluster, 1152 Xeon cores, 13.8 Tflops)
- The Barcelona Supercomputing Centre
- The Spanish Supercomputing Network
- LUSITANIA
- BIFI (at the University of Zaragoza)
- EGEE (Enabling Grids for E-SciencE, a European computational grid)
- Ibercivis (Spanish computational grid)
Collaborations
The Laboratory participates in many international projects and collaborates with other institutions, such as:
- JET-EFDA
- ITER
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- NIFS
- JT-60SA
- Universidad Carlos III, Madrid
- Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica
- Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), Universidad de Zaragoza
- Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC)
Events
The Laboratory has organised many events, among which:
- The 21st Symposium on Fusion Technology (SOFT, 2000)
- The 9th EU-US Transport Task Force Meeting (TTF, 2002)
- The 32nd European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics (EPS, 2005)
- The 15th International Stellarator Workshop (ISW, 2005)
- The 12th European Fusion Theory Conference (EFTC, 2008)
- The 18th Conference on Plasma Surface Interactions (PSI, 2008)
- The 3rd EFDA Transport Topical Group meeting and 15th EU-US Transport Task Force Meeting (TTG-TTF, 2010)