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Title: Impact of Workstations on Criticality Analyses at ABB Combustion Engineering

Abstract

During 1991, ABB Combustion Engineering (ABB C-E) made the transition from a CDC Cyber 990 mainframe for nuclear criticality safety analyses to Hewlett Packard (HP)/Apollo workstations. The primary motivation for this change was improved economics of the workstation and maintaining state-of-the-art technology. The Cyber 990 utilized the NOS operating system with a 60-bit word size. The CPU memory size was limited to 131 100 words of directly addressable memory with an extended 250000 words available. The Apollo workstation environment at ABB consists of HP/Apollo-9000/400 series desktop units used by most application engineers, networked with HP/Apollo DN10000 platforms that use 32-bit word size and function as the computer servers and network administrative CPUS, providing a virtual memory system.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [1]
  1. ABB Combustion Engineering Nuclear Power, Inc., Windsor, CT (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
ABB Combustion Engineering Nuclear Power, Inc., Windsor, CT (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP)
OSTI Identifier:
5769419
Report Number(s):
CONF-930601-
Journal ID: ISSN 0003-018X; CODEN: TANSAO
Resource Type:
Conference
Journal Name:
Transactions of the American Nuclear Society
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 68; Conference: American Nuclear Society (ANS) Annual Meeting , San Diego, CA (United States), 20-24 Jun 1993; Journal ID: ISSN 0003-018X
Publisher:
American Nuclear Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
42 ENGINEERING; 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING; BOLTZMANN EQUATION; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; CRITICALITY; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; SAFETY ANALYSIS; NEUTRON TRANSPORT; CRAY COMPUTERS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; CALCULATION METHODS; COMPUTERS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; NEUTRAL-PARTICLE TRANSPORT; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; RADIATION TRANSPORT; SIMULATION; Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP); ABB Combustion Engineering (ABB C-E); Workstations; 420203* - Engineering- Handling Equipment & Procedures; 663610 - Neutron Physics- (1992-)

Citation Formats

Tarko, L. B., Freeman, R. S., and O'Donnell, P. F. Impact of Workstations on Criticality Analyses at ABB Combustion Engineering. United States: N. p., 1993. Web.
Tarko, L. B., Freeman, R. S., & O'Donnell, P. F. Impact of Workstations on Criticality Analyses at ABB Combustion Engineering. United States.
Tarko, L. B., Freeman, R. S., and O'Donnell, P. F. 1993. "Impact of Workstations on Criticality Analyses at ABB Combustion Engineering". United States.
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title = {Impact of Workstations on Criticality Analyses at ABB Combustion Engineering},
author = {Tarko, L. B. and Freeman, R. S. and O'Donnell, P. F.},
abstractNote = {During 1991, ABB Combustion Engineering (ABB C-E) made the transition from a CDC Cyber 990 mainframe for nuclear criticality safety analyses to Hewlett Packard (HP)/Apollo workstations. The primary motivation for this change was improved economics of the workstation and maintaining state-of-the-art technology. The Cyber 990 utilized the NOS operating system with a 60-bit word size. The CPU memory size was limited to 131 100 words of directly addressable memory with an extended 250000 words available. The Apollo workstation environment at ABB consists of HP/Apollo-9000/400 series desktop units used by most application engineers, networked with HP/Apollo DN10000 platforms that use 32-bit word size and function as the computer servers and network administrative CPUS, providing a virtual memory system.},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5769419}, journal = {Transactions of the American Nuclear Society},
issn = {0003-018X},
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volume = 68,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun Jun 20 00:00:00 EDT 1993},
month = {Sun Jun 20 00:00:00 EDT 1993}
}

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