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Software-defined Quantum Networking Ecosystem

The software enables a user to perform modeling and simulation of software-defined quantum networks. The software addresses the problem of how to synchronize transmission of quantum and classical signals through multi-node networks and to demonstrate quantum information protocols such as quantum teleportation. The software approaches this problem by generating a graphical model of the underlying network and attributing properties to each node and link in the graph. The graphical model is then simulated using a combination of discrete-event simulators to calculate the expected state of each node and link in the graph at a future time. A user interacts with the software by providing an initial network model and instantiating methods for the nodes to transmit information with each other. This includes writing application scripts in python that make use of the software library interfaces. A user then initiates the application scripts, which invokes the software simulation. The user then uses the built-in diagnostic tools to query the state of the simulation and to collect statistics on synchronization.

Humble, Travis S.↗

dfnWorks, Version 2.0

DFNWorks is a suite of software for generating and solving flow and transport physics on a Discrete Fracture Network (DFN). The suite is composed of three components: DFNGen: Stochastic fracture generation, mesh generation, model setup; DFNFlow: Flow solution using PFLOTRAN or FEHM control volume formulation solver; DFNTrans: Particle tracking transport; DFNGen Algorithm Description: This is a workflow that uses C++ software version for fracture generation, Python scripts written by the authors and the LaGriT software to generate computational mesh. DFNFlow The solution of flow in porous media is accomplished by coupling DFNGen output with the existing software packages FEHM and PFLOTRAN. The DFNWorks workflow involves modules and scripts that translate DFNGen output to formats compatible with FEHM and PFLOTRAN input. FEHM LA-CC-2012-083 PFLOTRAN LA-CC-09-047 LaGriT LA-CC-07-38 DFNTrans Stand-alone particle tracking algorithm that takes FEHM/PFLOTRAN flow solution as output and computes velocity field and advects particles.

Makedonska, Nataliia↗

The Life Cycle of an OpenStudio Measure: Development, Testing, Distribution, and Application

An OpenStudio Measure is a script that can manipulate an OpenStudio model and associated data to apply energy conservation measures (ECMs), run supplemental simulations, or visualize simulation results. The OpenStudio software development kit (SDK) and accessibility of the Ruby scripting language makes measure authorship accessible to both software developers and energy modelers. This paper discusses the life cycle of an OpenStudio Measure from development, testing, and distribution, to application.

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Transactive Energy Simulation Platform

TESP combines existing domain simulators in the electric power grid, with new transactive agents, growth models and evaluation scripts. The existing domain simulators include GridLAB-D for the distribution grid and single-family residential buildings, MATPOWER for transmission and bulk generation, and EnergyPlus for large buildings. More are planned for subsequent versions of TESP. The new elements are: TEAgents - simulate market participants and transactive systems for market clearing. Some of this functionality was extracted from GridLAB-D and implemented in Python for customization by PNNL and others; Growth Model - a means for simulating system changes over a multiyear period, including both normal load growth and specific investment decisions. Customizable in Python code; and Evaluation Script - a means of evaluating different transactive systems through customizable post-processing in Python code. TESP provides a method for other researchers and vendors to design transactive systems, and test them in a virtual environment. It allows customization of the key components by modifying Python code.

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Soil Carbon Data: long tail recovery

The software is intended to be part of an open source effort regarding soils data. The software provides customized data ingestion scripts for soil carbon related data sets and scripts for output databases that conform to common templates.

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Synthetic Transaction Test Generator for Websites

Python script for querying a list of web sites and their details from Splunk and dynamically creating tests for monitoring uptime. The data generated from this script is then sent back to Splunk for creating reports and alerts.

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VERA Infrastructure

The Virtual Environment for Reactor Applications (VERA) Infrastructure provides the infrastructure to build, configure, test, install, and package for release the VERAS suite of codes that is being developed by the Consortium for the Advanced Simulation of Light-water reactors (CASL). It includes the list of codes that can be built within VERA, the location on the configuration-controlled CASL development computer, the version number used in any particular software installation, the location of the third-party libraries used for testing VERA on a suite of the CASL testing and development computers, and the scripts to configure, build, test, install, and package for release a particular version of VERA. The VERA Infrastructure contains a list of scripts, configuration options, and utilities that are specific to CASL, but contain no physics or numeric, nuclear technology, or encryption technology.

Baird, Mark↗

TORCHE - Toolbox for Reactor Cross-Flow Heat Exchangers

As interest within the scientific community for the development of small modular reactors (SMRs) grows, utilizing compact and cross-flow heat exchangers present many design advantages. Cross-flow configurations of tube bundles allow water, liquid metal, or a molten salt to be contained within the tube side or shell side in an efficient spatial arrangement. The goal of this project is to provide the user with an easy-to-use set of tools for cross-flow heat exchanger design. The tools are intended to require little to no geometric set-up like meshing in a CFD code in order to enable rapid preliminary design and optimization. With this set of simple Python scripts, the user can determine the necessary quantities and correctional factors in order to assess the heat exchanger characteristics. The two characteristics used in designing novel and efficient heat exchangers incorporated into this work currently are pressure drop and heat transfer coefficients. In support of these efforts, the literature has been scoured for sources of experimental data and proposed methods for calculating pressure drop and heat transfer in cross-flow tube banks. Several empirical correlations and methodologies for calculating pressure drop and heat transfer incorporated into the Toolbox for Reactor Cross-Flow Heat Exchangers (TORCHE). TORCHE is an expansion on the cross-flow pressure drop scripts reported by Haefner et al.. Presented in this summary is a synopsis of the empirical correlations and methodologies of pressure drops and heat transfer coefficient. A validation effort of these models is also presented to provide confidence in the implementation. For this validation of TORCHE, experimental data has been gathered and extracted from graphs in the literature. Error bars were not reported in the experimental data used in this summary and therefore is not included in the analysis.

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Automating Log Synthesis and Visualization with Python and Splunk

The goal of this project is to automate log analysis by utilizing Splunk, Bash, and Python together. Simplifying the monitoring and analysis of network traffic was the main goal. In order to accomplish this, a Bash script was created to use 'tcpdump' to automate network sniffing. It also included a 24-hour file rotation mechanism to effectively manage the pcap files that were generated. After that, a Python script was written to read these pcap files and retrieve pertinent data about network traffic. After processing the collected data, Splunk is used to summarize the important metrics and visualize said information with relevant graphs.

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A Graphical User Interface for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment Robotic Test Stand

In preparation for DUNE, Fermilab along with six other institutions are testing cold electronics for quality control before components placed in the far detector. We test them by using a robotic arm that places these chips into sockets on a computer board that will test their functionality. Up until now, the chips have been tested using a command line script that drives a state machine to conduct tests step-by-step. In order to lower the skill barrier to conduct tests and to speed up the quality control process, I was tasked to create a graphical user interface that would allow users to use buttons, text boxes, and drop-down menus to input information and tell the testing state machine how to operate. I had to learn about the Python package Tkinter to start the process of widget placement. I further developed a pause feature unused in the previous command line script that would allow the user to shut down testing gracefully, bring the robotic arm to go back to ground state, and go forward or backward a step in the testing process. After completing the basic functionality of the GUI, I started testing production chips with the GUI to debug. Some issues were found, which required me to further develop parts of the inherited state machine code. The code for the GUI has now been pushed into the copy the DUNE/FD_CE git repository and will soon be merged with the official DUNE/FD_CE repository so that the other institutions testing DUNE cold electronics can use and expand upon it.

Gutierrez Villanueva, Jaziel [Fermilab]↗

Mapdfn.py

SAND2021-4824 O mapdfn.py takes the output of dfnWorks describing a discrete fracture network (DFN) and converts the DFN to an equivalent porous medium representation. This is done by looping through cells in a 3-D model domain, tagging those intersected by fractures, and calculating effective properties. Coordinate transformations are imported from an open source script (transformations.py) developed at the University of California. An associated driver script, mapdfn2pflotran.py, calls the functions in mapdfn.py and writes the mapdfn.py output to hdf5 files for use with PFLOTRAN. Sandia National Laboratories is a multimission laboratory managed and operated by National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International Inc., for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-NA0003525. SAND2021-4824 O

Stein, Emily↗

Appalachian Basin Play Fairway Analysis: Thermal Quality Analysis in Low-Temperature Geothermal Play Fairway Analysis (GPFA-AB)

This collection of files are part of a larger dataset uploaded in support of Low Temperature Geothermal Play Fairway Analysis for the Appalachian Basin (GPFA-AB). Phase 1 of the GPFA-AB project identified potential Geothermal Play Fairways within the Appalachian basin of Pennsylvania, West Virginia and New York. This was accomplished through analysis of 4 key criteria: thermal quality, natural reservoir productivity, risk of seismicity, and heat utilization. Each of these analyses represent a distinct project task, with the fifth task encompassing combination of the 4 risks factors. Supporting data for all five tasks has been uploaded into the Geothermal Data Repository node of the National Geothermal Data System (NGDS). This submission comprises the data for Thermal Quality Analysis (project task 1) and includes all of the necessary shapefiles, rasters, datasets, code, and references to code repositories that were used to create the thermal resource and risk factor maps as part of the GPFA-AB project. The identified Geothermal Play Fairways are also provided with the larger dataset. Figures (.png) are provided as examples of the shapefiles and rasters. The regional standardized 1 square km grid used in the project is also provided as points (cell centers), polygons, and as a raster. Two ArcGIS toolboxes are available: 1) RegionalGridModels.tbx for creating resource and risk factor maps on the standardized grid, and 2) ThermalRiskFactorModels.tbx for use in making the thermal resource maps and cross sections. These toolboxes contain item description documentation for each model within the toolbox, and for the toolbox itself. This submission also contains three R scripts: 1) AddNewSeisFields.R to add seismic risk data to attribute tables of seismic risk, 2) StratifiedKrigingInterpolation.R for the interpolations used in the thermal resource analysis, and 3) LeaveOneOutCrossValidation.R for the cross validations used in the thermal interpolations. Some file descriptions make reference to various 'memos'. These are contained within the final report submitted October 16, 2015. Each zipped file in the submission contains an 'about' document describing the full Thermal Quality Analysis content available, along with key sources, authors, citation, use guidelines, and assumptions, with the specific file(s) contained within the .zip file highlighted. UPDATE: Newer version of the Thermal Quality Analysis has been added here: https://gdr.openei.org/submissions/879 (Also linked below) Newer version of the Combined Risk Factor Analysis has been added here: https://gdr.openei.org/submissions/880 (Also linked below)

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ALFA Discrete Element Method (DEM) Simulations using PFC3D

Contains input scripts, background information, reduced data, and results associated with the discrete element method (DEM) simulations of interface shear tests, plate anchor pullout tests, and torpedo anchor installation and pullout tests, using the software PFC3D (v4.0).

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Calibration of the Solid‐State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Search for Axion‐Like Dark Matter

Abstract Calibration of nuclear‐magnetic‐resonance‐based searches for axion‐like dark matter can be performed by free induction decay (FID) measurements. This manu‐ script describes FID experiments on several solid materials, motivated by the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr) program. Experiments with 207 Pb nuclear spins in ferroelectrics, lead magnesium niobate‐lead titanate (PbMg 1/3 Nb 2/3 O 3 ) (PbTiO 3 ) 1/3 (PMN‐PT) and lead zirconium titante PbZr 0.52 Ti 0.48 O 3 (PZT) are directly relevant to the CASPEr‐electric search for the electric dipole moment interaction of axion‐like dark matter. Experiments with 31 P nuclear spins in gadolinium‐doped hydroxypyromorphite Pb 4.95 Gd 0.05 (PO 4 ) 3 OH (HPM:Gd) are used for apparatus calibration. The measurements characterized the nuclear spin ensemble coherence time and the magnetic resonance detection sensitivity for these samples. Calibration is performed using small tip‐angle pulses.

Winter, Andrew J.↗

Implementation and verification of a user-defined element (UEL) for coupled thermal-hydraulic-mechanical-chemical (THMC) processes in saturated geological media

Efficient and accurate modeling of the coupled thermal-hydraulic-mechanical-chemical (THMC) processes in various rock formations is indispensable for designing energy geo-structures such as underground repositories for high-level nuclear wastes. Here, this work focuses on developing and verifying an implicit finite element solver for generic coupled THMC problems in geological settings. Starting from the mass, momentum, and energy balance laws, a specialized set of governing equations and a thermoporoelastic constitutive model is derived. This system is then solved by an implicit finite element (FE) scheme. Specifically, the residuals and the Jacobians are scripted in a user-defined element (UEL) subroutine which is then combined with the general-purpose FE software Abaqus Standard to solve initial-boundary value problems. Considering the complexity of the system, the UEL development follows a stepwise manner by first solving the coupled hydraulic-mechanical (HM) and thermal-hydraulic-mechanical (THM) equations before moving on to the full THMC problem. Each implementation step consists of at least one verification test by comparing computed results with closed-form analytical solutions to ensure that the various coupling effects are correctly realized. To demonstrate the robustness of the algorithm and to validate the UEL, a three-dimensional case study is performed with reference to the in-situ heating test of ATLAS at Belgium in 1980s. A hypothetical radionuclide leakage event is then simulated by activating the chemical-concentration degree of freedom and prescribing a constant high concentration at the heater's surface. The model predicts a limited contaminated regime after six years considering both diffusion and advection effects on species transport.

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High‐throughput profiling and analysis of plant responses over time to abiotic stress

Abstract Sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) is a rapidly growing, high‐biomass crop prized for abiotic stress tolerance. However, measuring genotype‐by‐environment (G x E) interactions remains a progress bottleneck. We subjected a panel of 30 genetically diverse sorghum genotypes to a spectrum of nitrogen deprivation and measured responses using high‐throughput phenotyping technology followed by ionomic profiling. Responses were quantified using shape (16 measurable outputs), color (hue and intensity), and ionome (18 elements). We measured the speed at which specific genotypes respond to environmental conditions, in terms of both biomass and color changes, and identified individual genotypes that perform most favorably. With this analysis, we present a novel approach to quantifying color‐based stress indicators over time. Additionally, ionomic profiling was conducted as an independent, low‐cost, and high‐throughput option for characterizing G x E, identifying the elements most affected by either genotype or treatment and suggesting signaling that occurs in response to the environment. This entire dataset and associated scripts are made available through an open‐access, user‐friendly, web‐based interface. In summary, this work provides analysis tools for visualizing and quantifying plant abiotic stress responses over time. These methods can be deployed as a time‐efficient method of dissecting the genetic mechanisms used by sorghum to respond to the environment to accelerate crop improvement.

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AEcroscopy: A Software–Hardware Framework Empowering Microscopy Toward Automated and Autonomous Experimentation

Microscopy has been pivotal in improving the understanding of structure-function relationships at the nanoscale and is by now ubiquitous in most characterization labs. However, traditional microscopy operations are still limited largely by a human-centric click-and-go paradigm utilizing vendor-provided software, which limits the scope, utility, efficiency, effectiveness, and at times reproducibility of microscopy experiments. Here, in this work, a coupled software–hardware platform is developed that consists of a software package termed AEcroscopy (short for Automated Experiments in Microscopy), along with a field-programmable-gate-array device with LabView-built customized acquisition scripts, which overcome these limitations and provide the necessary abstractions toward full automation of microscopy platforms. The platform works across multiple vendor devices on scanning probe microscopes and electron microscopes. It enables customized scan trajectories, processing functions that can be triggered locally or remotely on processing servers, user-defined excitation waveforms, standardization of data models, and completely seamless operation through simple Python commands to enable a plethora of microscopy experiments to be performed in a reproducible, automated manner. This platform can be readily coupled with existing machine-learning libraries and simulations, to provide automated decision-making and active theory-experiment optimization to turn microscopes from characterization tools to instruments capable of autonomous model refinement and physics discovery.

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The Data Mine model for accessible partnerships in data science

Abstract The Data Mine at Purdue University is a pioneering experiential learning community for undergraduate and graduate students of any background to learn data science. The first data‐intensive experience embedded in a large learning community, The Data Mine had nearly 1300 students in academic year (AY) 2022–2023 and nearly 1700 students for AY 2023–2024. The Data Mine embodies data‐infused education, research, and collaboration. Students learn Python, R, SQL, and shell‐scripting, while working on weekly projects within a high‐performance computing (HPC) cluster. In the Corporate Partners cohort, students work on teams of 5–15 students, led by a paid student team leader. Each cohort follows an Agile approach, working on data‐intensive projects provided by industry partners and mentored by company employees. Students develop professional and data skills throughout the academic year, from August through April. Many students return in subsequent years to the program, increasing their tenure with a Corporate Partner. Student teams are inherently interdisciplinary; students from 133 different majors are involved in the program, ranging from new incoming students through PhD level students. These interdisciplinary teams of students bring new perspectives to challenging problems in which data science is a key part of the solution. The interdisciplinary teams foster an environment of synthesis with ideas and solutions. Students come together with different life experiences, different levels of technical skill, but also varying ways they navigate paths to solutions because of the variety of majors represented, resulting in a more creative and robust solution than a traditional data science program. This article is categorized under: Applications of Computational Statistics > Education in Computational Statistics

Betz, Margaret A.↗