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- Development & usage history
- Download statistics:
- FY23:   (01/Oct/2022 - 30/Sept/2023)
- FY22: 43,041   (01/Oct/2021 - 30/Sept/2022)
- FY21: 42,387   (01/Oct/2020 - 30/Sept/2021)
- FY20: ~35,000   (01/Oct/2019 - 30/Sept/2020)
- FY19: 41,205   (01/Sep/2018 - 29/Jul/2019)
- FY15: 38,795
- FY14: 26,439
- FY13: 27,403
- FY12: 24,303, the 3rd most-downloaded software at LBNL
- FY11: 16,876
- FY09: 9983
- In commercial mathematical libraries: Cray's LibSci, FEMLAB, HP's MathLib, IMSL,
NAG, OptimaNumerics.
- Other commercial uses:
- airplane design (e.g., Boeing)
- oil industry (e.g., Chevron, ExxonMobil, Saudi Aramco)
- entertainment (e.g., Walt Disney Feature Animation)
- circuit, device simulation in semiconductor industry (e.g., AMD)
earthquake simulation and prediction -->
economic modeling -->
- design of novel materials (e.g., PhoeniX Optical Simulation Software)
- breast cancer screening/diagnostic (e.g., Delphinus Medical Technologies)
- study of alternative energy sources (e.g., General Atomics)
- In academic/Lab's application codes:
- ALE3D: 2D and 3D multi-physics numerical simulation software using arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) techniques, LLNL, https://wci.llnl.gov/simulation/computer-codes/ale3d
- Alquimia: biogeochemistry code, hydrology and reactive transport simulations, LBNL/LANL, https://github.com/LBL-EESA/alquimia-dev
- ASCEM/Amanzi: Advanced Simulation Capability for Environmental Management, reactive flow, DOE/LBNL, http://esd1.lbl.gov/research/projects/ascem/
- Damage simulation in materials: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-18827-0_18
- Denovo: radiation transport simulations for nuclear reactors, DOE/ORNL, https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Denovo_factsheet_v3.pdf
- DGDFT: Dicontinuous Galerkin Method for Density Functional Theory, DOE/LBNL, https://sites.google.com/site/dgdftscidac/home
- FEAP: finite element analysis, UC Berkeley, http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/projects/feap/
- H2plus: McCurdy’s water simulation code, DOE/LBNL
- HEMP-DM3a: spacecraft design, Germany, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Julia_Duras/publication/312587157_Solutioin_of_Poisson's_Equation_in_Electrostatic_Particle-on-cell_Simulation/links/5883a10caca272b7b44422d3/Solutioin-of-Poissons-Equation-in-Electrostatic-Particle-on-cell-Simulation.pdf
- HiFi: multi-fluid modeling for plasma applications, US Naval Research Lab, http://www.nrl.navy.mil/ssd/branches/7680/hifi
- HotSpot: finite element simulation of thermal model for chip design, Univ.
of Virginia & IBM, http://lava.cs.virginia.edu/HotSpot/index.htm
- M3D-C1: plasma fusion energy, DOE/PPPL, http://theorycodes.pppl.wikispaces.net/M3D-C1
(Highlights)
- NIMROD: plasma simulation of Tokamaks, https://nimrodteam.org
- NekTar: High-order spectral-element Navier-Stokes solver, Imperial College London & Univ. of Utah, http://www.nektar.info
- Omega3P: accelerator cavity design, DOE/SLAC, https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/AdvComp/Omega3P
- OpenSees: earthquake engineering, UC Berkeley, http://opensees.berkeley.edu
- PMAMR: porous media AMR code for carbon sequestration, DOE/LBNL
- PHOENIX: stellar and planetary atmosphere code, Hamburg Observatory, Germany, http://www.hs.uni-hamburg.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14&Itemid=294&lang=en
- QUEST: Quantum electron simulation toolbox, UC Davis, http://quest.ucdavis.edu
- VORPAL: Plasma physics simulation code, Tech-X
- XGC1: plasma, kinetic edge turbulence, DOE/PPPL, http://theorycodes.pppl.wikispaces.net/XGC1
- LaMEM: finite-difference 3D code for geodynamic applications,
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany,
https://bitbucket.org/bkaus/lamem
- In academic/Lab's HPC solvers:
Hypre, MueLu, PETSc, ShyLU, SUNDIALS, Trilinos, etc.
- Other public projects: