In the US, recent software research and development for petascale systems has been performed by two main entities: US Government funded R&D collaborations (both at Universities and at Government Labs) and Industry efforts at products. With few notable exceptions, there has been little diffusion...

Successful commercialization of fusion energy requires economic viability as well as technical and scientific feasibility. To assess economic viability, we have conducted a pre-conceptual level evaluation of LIFE economics. Unit costs are estimated from a combination of bottom-up costs...