Component Manual for the Neutron Ray-Tracing Package McStas, version 3.8.6

15.12  The Vitess_output McStas Component

Write neutron state parameters to VITESS neutron filename.

Identification

Description

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

Note that when standard output is used, as is the default, no monitors or other components that produce terminal output must be used, or the neutron output from this component will become corrupted.

Example: Vitess_output(filename="MySource.vit", bufsize = 10000, progress = 1)

%BUGS This component will NOT work with parallel execution (MPI).

Input parameters

Parameters in boldface are required; the others are optional.

Name

Unit

Description

Default

filename

string

Filename of neutron file to write. Default is standard output

0

bufsize

records

Size of neutron output buffer

10000

progress

flag

If not zero, output dots as progress indicator

0

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