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The Vitess_input Component

Read neutron state parameters from VITESS neutron filename.

Identification

• Site:
• Author: Kristian Nielsen
• Origin: Risoe/ILL
• Date: June 6, 2000

Description

Source-like component reading neutron state parameters from a
VITESS neutron filename. Used to interface McStas components or
simulations into VITESS. Each neutron is 104 bytes.

Example: Vitess_input(filename="MySource.vit", bufsize = 10000, repeat_count = 2)

%BUGS
We recommend NOT to use parallel execution (MPI) with this component.

Input parameters

Parameters in boldface are required; the others are optional.

Name	Unit	Description	Default
filename	string	Filename of neutron file to read. Default (NULL) is standard input. Empty string "" unactivates component	0
bufsize	records	Size of neutron input buffer	10000
repeat_count	1	Number of times to repeat each neutron read	1

AT (	,	,		) RELATIVE		Generate
ROTATED (	,	,		) RELATIVE

Links

• Source code for Vitess_input.comp.

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