Speaker
Dr
Mads Bertelsen
(European Spallation Source, Data Management and Software Center)
Description
The McStas neutron ray-tracing simulation package is a versatile tool for producing accurate simulations of neutron scattering instruments at reactors, short- and long-pulsed spallation sources such as the European Spallation Source. McStas It is extensively used for design and optimization of instruments, virtual experiments, data analysis and user training. McStas was founded as an scientific, open-source collaborative code in 1997.
This contribution presents the project at its current state and gives an overview of main new developments in McStas 2.5 (December 2018) and the forthcoming 2.6 and 3.0 releases, including a revised code generator and dawning support for execution on GPU processors.
Primary author
Mr
Peter Willendrup
(Technical University of Denmark and European Spallation Source)
Co-authors
Dr
Mads Bertelsen
(European Spallation Source, Data Management and Software Center)
Dr
Erik Bergbäck Knudsen
(Technical University of Denmark)
Mr
Jakob Garde
(Technical University of Denmark)
Dr
Emmanuel Farhi
(Synchrotron Soleil, France)
