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- Development & usage history
- Download statistics:
- FY23:   (01/Oct/2022 - 30/Sept/2023)
- FY22: 43,041   (01/Oct/2021 - 30/Sept/2022)
- FY21: 42,387   (01/Oct/2020 - 30/Sept/2021)
- FY20: ~35,000   (01/Oct/2019 - 30/Sept/2020)
- FY19: 41,205   (01/Sep/2018 - 29/Jul/2019)
- FY15: 38,795
- FY14: 26,439
- FY13: 27,403
- FY12: 24,303, the 3rd most-downloaded software at LBNL
- FY11: 16,876
- FY09: 9983
- In commercial mathematical libraries: Cray's LibSci, FEMLAB, HP's MathLib, IMSL,
NAG, OptimaNumerics.
- Other commercial uses:
- airplane design (e.g., Boeing)
- oil industry (e.g., Chevron, ExxonMobil, Saudi Aramco)
- entertainment (e.g., Walt Disney Feature Animation)
- circuit, device simulation in semiconductor industry (e.g., AMD)
earthquake simulation and prediction -->
economic modeling -->
- design of novel materials (e.g., PhoeniX Optical Simulation Software)
- breast cancer screening/diagnostic (e.g., Delphinus Medical Technologies)
- study of alternative energy sources (e.g., General Atomics)
- In academic/Lab's application codes:
- ALE3D: 2D and 3D multi-physics numerical simulation software using arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) techniques, LLNL.
- Alquimia: biogeochemistry code, hydrology and reactive transport simulations, LBNL/LANL
- ASCEM/Amanzi: Advanced Simulation Capability for Environmental Management, reactive flow, DOE/LBNL
- Damage simulation in materials
- Denovo: radiation transport simulations for nuclear reactors, DOE/ORNL
DGDFT: Dicontinuous Galerkin Method for Density Functional Theory, DOE/LBNL -->
- FEAP: finite element analysis, UC Berkeley
- H2plus: McCurdy's water simulation code, DOE/LBNL
- HEMP-DM3a: spacecraft design, Germany
- HiFi: multi-fluid modeling for plasma applications, US Naval Research Lab
- HotSpot: finite element simulation of thermal model for chip design, Univ. of Virginia & IBM
- M3D-C1: plasma fusion energy, DOE/PPPL
(Highlights)
- MIPAV: Medical Image Processing, Analysis, and Visualization software at NIH/CIT
- NIMROD: plasma simulation of Tokamaks
- NekTar: High-order spectral-element Navier-Stokes solver, Imperial College London & Univ. of Utah
- Omega3P: accelerator cavity design, DOE/SLAC
- OpenSees: earthquake engineering, UC Berkeley
- PMAMR in ASCEM: porous media AMR code for carbon sequestration, DOE/LBNL
- PHOENIX: stellar and planetary atmosphere code, Hamburg Observatory, Germany
- PEXSI:
The Pole EXpansion and Selected Inversion method for evaluating certain selected elements of a matrix functionn
- QUEST: Quantum electron simulation toolbox, UC Davis
- VSim: Plasma physics simulation code, Tech-X
- XGC1: plasma, kinetic edge turbulence, DOE/PPPL
- LaMEM: finite-difference 3D code for geodynamic applications, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
- In academic/Lab's HPC solvers:
Hypre, MueLu, PETSc, ShyLU, SUNDIALS, Trilinos, etc.
- Other public projects: