A GPU accelerated nuclear reactor core monitoring system in virtual machines

AUTHOR(S):

Gabor Hazi, Jozsef Pales, Istvan Pos, Zoltan Kalya, Tamas Parko, Csaba Horvath, Gergely Makai, Istvan Aron Vecsi, Miklos Ignits, Tamas Fejes

TITLE

A GPU accelerated nuclear reactor core monitoring system in virtual machines

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ABSTRACT

The core monitoring and surveillance system of Paks nuclear power plant has been replaced recently with a new version of the system VERONA utilizing virtualization technology and GPU accelerated numerical computations. In the new system, the process variables are monitored by the visual engine of a new simulation platform SIMTONIA (SIMulation TOols for Nuclear Industrial Application). In this paper the hardware and software architecture of the new system is presented in details enlighten the advantages of the application of stateof- art computational technologies.

KEYWORDS

Process monitoring, Graphics Processing Units, Virtual machines

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Cite this paper

Gabor Hazi, Jozsef Pales, Istvan Pos, Zoltan Kalya, Tamas Parko, Csaba Horvath, Gergely Makai, Istvan Aron Vecsi, Miklos Ignits, Tamas Fejes. (2017) A GPU accelerated nuclear reactor core monitoring system in virtual machines. International Journal of Computers, 2, 255-260