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Book Synopsis A Compendium of Computer Codes Used in Particle Accelerator Design and Analysis by :
Download or read book A Compendium of Computer Codes Used in Particle Accelerator Design and Analysis written by . This book was released on 1987. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In preparing this compilation, we came across the names of more than 150 programs that have been used in the design and analysis of accelerators. Many are obsolete and some are not easily transported from the institution where they were created. All are included in this compilation and filed at Los Alamos, but the obsolete codes have been removed from this article. Other than the judgment as to whether or not a particular code is obsolete, we have not made any critical evaluations. Computer codes and code compilations share the common problem of obsolescence. This compilation will probably be almost useless in three years or less. Useful codes become widely distributed. Users make improvements in distributed code, and the original author loses control over the evolution of the code as variations proliferate. Every generation of accelerator physicists produces code-builders; persons who feel that they can design more comprehensive or easier-to-use codes to do the tasks done by previous codes. This document is organized so that each code is described on a one- or two-page data sheet. The data sheets are arranged alphabetically by code name but are not numbered. In this way, it will be easy to insert new codes as they are discovered. There are a number of simulation codes that have no names, and we have not taken the time to obtain detailed information on all of them. However, there are two fairly current codes that we thought worthwhile to include here. Therefore we have arbitrarily assigned them names. One of these is a CERN code by Myers, which we have called BEAMBEAM and the other is a DESY code by Piwinski, which we have called BMBMI. The code data sheets are preceded by three indexes: subject, person-to-contact, and code acronym. It was not useful to list codes by authors because, in many cases, the original author is no longer associated with the code and many other persons have contributed to maintaining and improving the code.
