Thank you for your interest in OpenCSP! OpenCSP is a community code development and data sharing environment, providing several items:
OpenCSP Data
- CAD tools and models, including the SOFAST CAD layout tool.
- Simple tools to support quick analysis, such as a 2-d interactive ray-trace study tool.
- Optical calibration targets, both in ready-to-print form and ready-to-modify editable form.
- Research data sets, including a large corpus of beam characterization system (BCS) data.
Contributing to OpenCSP Data:
– Please request upload and/or edit access by emailing OpenCSP@sandia.gov with your box account name, company affiliation, and reason for requesting upload and/or edit access.
NOTE: email is monitored infrequently and it may be a while before you receive a response.
– To submit detailed data-related bug reports or feature requests, please sign up for a GitHub account and submit issues on GitHub.
OpenCSP Code
- Ready-to-run applications, including SOFAST 2.0.
- Foundation classes to support writing new CSP programs.
- A rich portfolio of ready-to-run examples showing how to use OpenCSP to solve a variety of problems.
- Support for high-performance parallel computation.
- A rich development environment setup to support team development of high-quality, reusable code – developers welcome!
Contributing to OpenCSP Code:
– Please sign up for a GitHub account and then head over to the OpenCSP GitHub contributors guide and familiarize yourself with our guidelines.
– To submit code and documentation updates, please submit pull requests on GitHub.
– To submit detailed code-related bug reports or feature requests, please submit issues on GitHub.
OpenCSP is designed to support the whole CSP community – including industry, research, and education. The concentrating solar power community is excited to collaborate with you!
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