Design and first applications of the ITER integrated modelling & analysis suite

Frédéric Imbeaux (1) , Simon S.D. Pinches (2) , Jonathan J.B. Lister (3) , Y. Buravand (1) , Thomas T. Casper (2) , Basil Duval (3) , B. Guillerminet (1) , Masanari Hosokawa (2) , Wayne Houlberg (2) , Philippe Huynh (1) , Sun-Hee Kim (2) , G. Manduchi (4) , Michal Owsiak (5) , Bartek Palak (5) , Marcin Plociennik (5) , Guy Rouault (6) , Olivier Sauter (3) , Pär Strand (7)

1 IRFM - Institut de Recherche sur la Fusion par confinement Magnétique
2 ITER - ITER organization
3 EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
4 Consorzio RFX - Ricerca Formazione Innovazione
5 PSNC - Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center
6 CORYSS-TESS
7 Department of Earth and Space Sciences [Göteborg]

The ITER Integrated Modelling & Analysis Suite (IMAS) will support both plasma operation and research activities on the ITER tokamak experiment. The IMAS will be accessible to all ITER members as a key tool for the scientific exploitation of ITER. The backbone of the IMAS infrastructure is a standardized, machine-generic data model that represents simulated and experimental data with identical structures. The other outcomes of the IMAS design and prototyping phase are a set of tools to access data and design integrated modelling workflows, as well as first plasma simulators workflows and components implemented with various degrees of modularity.

Keywords: plasma control system; ITER; magnetic fusion; integrated modelling; modelling infrastructure

Domains: Physics [physics]

Frédéric Imbeaux, Simon S.D. Pinches, Jonathan J.B. Lister, Y. Buravand, Thomas T. Casper, et al.. Design and first applications of the ITER integrated modelling & analysis suite. Nuclear Fusion, 2015, 55, pp.123006. ⟨10.1088/0029-5515/55/12/123006⟩. ⟨cea-01576460⟩