A code package to produce ACE-formatted files for MCNP calculations. This updated version allows preparing fast, dosimetry, thermal and photonuclear data for Monte Carlo simulations.
The ACEMAKER driver relies on specific versions of LINEAR, RECENT, LEGEND, SPECTRA, SIGMA1, FIXUP, GROUPIE, MERGER, and DICTIN from the PREPRO code suite. The modules SIXLIN, GAMLIN, DOACE, DODOS, DOTSL and DOPHN prepare the required ACE-formatted files. Please consult the installation instructions for guidance on how to set up this package including its dependencies.
The user should be aware that the comment lines within the source codes should always be considered as the most recent documentation and may supersede any earlier published report.
You can download the latest released (stable) version of ACEMAKER, either as zip or as tar.gz, from the releases page:
https://github.com/IAEA-NDS/ACEMAKER/releases/latest
Alternatively, you can clone this repository with git, from the command line:
git clone https://github.com/IAEA-NDS/acemaker.git
If you want to use a version that corresponds to one of the releases, make sure to check out the corresponding tagged commit.
Binaries for Windows and Ubuntu are provided in this repository. Consult the Usage section for learning how to run ACEMAKER. If you use another operating system, you need to compile the binaries yourself, which is described in the next section.
ACEMAKER depends on several codes of PREPRO.
To compile these binaries with gfortran, first clone the PREPRO repository and change into the src directory:
git clone https://github.com/iaea-nds/prepro.git
cd prepro/source
At present, specific binaries need to be compiled from two version of PREPRO available as
the two branches prepro_for_acemaker_2019 and prepro_for_acemaker_2021, respectively.
First, compile the binaries in the branch prepro_for_acemaker_2021:
git checkout prepro_for_acemaker_2021
make install graphics=no
This will compile the binaries from the source files and copy them over to the bin directory in the root of the repository.
Now check out prepro_for_acemaker_2019, compile the source files and copy the fixup and spectra binaries to the bin directory,
replacing the one from prepro_for_acemaker_2021:
git checkout prepro_for_acemaker_2019
make
cp fixup spectra ../bin
To compile the ACEMAKER binaries, make the ACEMAKER repository available:
git clone https://github.com/IAEA-NDS/acemaker.git
The src directory contains .bat files for Windows and two .sh files for Linux to perform the compilation.
Under Linux, run the commands:
cd acemaker/src
./gfortgroupie.sh
./gfortcomp.sh
This will create the binaries in the build subfolder.
Copy the binaries of the PREPRO suite created above and the binaries of the build folder into a common directory
to have all required binaries of ACEMAKER and PREPRO at one place.
For Windows call the corresponding .bat files for the compilation, instead.
In this case, the binaries will be created in the src directory.
Copy these binaries and the ones of PREPRO created above to a common directory.
Copy all the binaries in bin/windows (or bin/linux) if you are using the precompiled versions
to a new folder where the calculation should be performed. If you have compiled the binaries yourself
according to the instructions in the previous section, copy those files instead to the calculation directory.
- Daniel López Aldama - Consultant, International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA/NDS, Vienna, Austria
- Andrej Trkov - International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA/NDS, Vienna, Austria
- Dermott E. Cullen - 1466 Hudson Way, Livermore, CA 94550, U.S.A.
- Georg Schnabel: help with acemaker verification as well as git repository preparation and maintenance.
If you want to give feedback or encounter any issues, please create an issue for this repository at GitHub. If not possible, you can write an email to nds.contact-point@iaea.org. For specific questions about the repository or code distribution, you can also contact g.schnabel@iaea.org. If you have specific questions about the acemaker source code, development or processing, you can contact the package developer at his personal email address dlopezaldama@gmail.com.
- ACEMAKER: A code package to produce ACE-formatted files for MCNP calculations (IAEA-NDS-0223)
Neither the author nor anybody else makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any information disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights.