Migration of Nuclear Criticality Safety Software from a Mainframe to a Workstation Environment
- Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant (Y-12), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
The Nuclear Criticality Safety Department (NCSD), Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant has undergone the transition of executing the Martin Marietta Energy Systems Nuclear Criticality Safety Software (NCSS) on IBM mainframes to a Hewlett-Packard (HP) 9000/730 workstation (NCSSHP). NCSSHP contains the following configuration-controlled modules and cross-section libraries: BONAMI, CSAS, GEOMCHY, ICE, KENO IV, KENO Va, MODIIFY, NITAWL SCALE, SLTBLIB, XSDRN, UNIXLIB, albedos library, weights library, 16-Group HANSEN-ROACH master library, 27-Group ENDF/B-IV master library, and standard composition library. This paper will discuss the method used to choose the workstation, the hardware setup of the chosen workstation, an overview of Y-12 software quality assurance and configuration control methodology, code validation, difficulties encountered in migrating the codes, and advantages to migrating to a workstation environment.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant (Y-12), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-84OS21400
- OSTI ID:
- 6479518
- Report Number(s):
- Y/DD-588; CONF-930601-14; ON: DE93011838
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: American Nuclear Society (ANS) Annual Meeting , San Francisco, CA (United States), 20-24 Jun 1993
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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