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Development of Web Interfaces for Analysis Codes

M. EMOTO, T. WATANABE, H. FUNABA, S. MURAKAMI¹⁾, Y. NAGAYAMA and K. KAWAHATA¹⁾

National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki, Gifu 509-5292, Japan

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Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan

(Received 4 December 2006 / Accepted 16 April 2007 / Published 20 November 2007)

Abstract

Several codes have been developed to analyze plasma physics. However, most of them are developed to run on supercomputers. Therefore, users who typically use personal computers (PCs) find it difficult to use these codes. In order to facilitate the widespread use of these codes, a user-friendly interface is required. The authors propose Web interfaces for these codes. To demonstrate the usefulness of this approach, the authors developed Web interfaces for two analysis codes. One of them is for FIT developed by Murakami. This code is used to analyze the NBI heat deposition, etc. Because it requires electron density profiles, electron temperatures, and ion temperatures as polynomial expressions, those unfamiliar with the experiments find it difficult to use this code, especially visitors from other institutes. The second one is for visualizing the lines of force in the LHD (large helical device) developed by Watanabe. This code is used to analyze the interference caused by the lines of force resulting from the various structures installed in the vacuum vessel of the LHD. This code runs on PCs; however, it requires that the necessary parameters be edited manually. Using these Web interfaces, users can execute these codes interactively.

Copyright (c) 2007 The Japan Society of Plasma Science and Nuclear Fusion Research

Keywords

Web interface, GUI, analysis, FIT, database

DOI: 10.1585/pfr.2.S1130

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This paper may be cited as follows:

M. EMOTO, T. WATANABE, H. FUNABA, S. MURAKAMI, Y. NAGAYAMA and K. KAWAHATA, Plasma Fusion Res. 2, S1130 (2007).