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DOE announces Genesis Mission request for applications
Ian Buck, Nvidia’s vice president of hyperscale and HPC computing (left), and Darío Gil, DOE Under Secretary for Science and Genesis Mission lead, at the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference. (Photo: Nvidia)
Department of Energy Under Secretary for Science and Genesis Mission lead Darío Gil participated in a session at the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference on March 17 that coincided with the announcement of the DOE’s $293 million Genesis Mission request for applications, which invites interdisciplinary teams to submit ideas for projects addressing over 20 of Genesis’s stated national challenges, several of which focus on accelerating nuclear research and nuclear energy output.
“We seek breakthrough ideas and novel collaborations leveraging the scientific prowess of our national laboratories, the private sector, universities, and science philanthropies,” said Gil.
Marco Ariola, Giuseppe Ambrosino, Jonathan B. Lister, Alfredo Pironti, Fabio Villone, P. Vyas
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 36 | Number 2 | September 1999 | Pages 126-138
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST99-A97
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A high-order, multivariable, modern plasma controller has been designed using H optimal control techniques and tested on the Tokamak Configuration Variable (TCV) tokamak. An initial design for the control of the plasma current, position, and shape parameters is described. The design process was based on the CREATE-L linearized model of TCV, and the controller was implemented on a digital processor. The results demonstrated that the required performance was delivered and the controller response was in good agreement with predictions using the model.
