Laboratorio Nacional de Fusión

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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.

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 (Origin, currently being phased out)
    • Lince (PC cluster)
    • Fenix (PC cluster)
    • Euler (PC cluster, 1152 Xeon cores, 13.8 Tflops)
  • The Barcelona Supercomputing Centre
  • 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:

Zaragoza

Events

The Laboratory has organised many events, among which:

External Links

Website of the Laboratorio Nacional de Fusión

Website of CIEMAT