January 2007
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Los Alamos Hosts Tri-Lab V&V Workshop

Beginning Tuesday, January 9, 2007, and ending with a half-day on Friday, January 12, the ASC Verification and Validation (V&V) Workshop was held at Los Alamos, with participation limited by invitation to tri-lab V&V managers. After an introductory talk by Dimitri Kusnezov, the workshop began with the following topical areas: Primary Validation, Thermonuclear Application Validation, Engineering V&V, Code and Calculation Verification, Uncertainty Quantification, Tri-Lab Test Suites, Data Analysis, Software Quality Engineering (SQE), and others.

The workshop’s objectives were as follows:

  • Technical exchange on V&V as required by the ASC engineering and physics-simulation community;
  • Discussion on the FY07 Level 2 Milestone tri-lab study of verification methods;
  • Engagement with ASC Alliance technical staff.