Micromagnetics Workshop Held at NIST-Boulder
October 1998
Staff from EEEL, ITL and MSEL led a regional workshop of the
Micromagnetic Modeling Activity Group (muMAG) at the NIST-Boulder
Laboratories on August 27, 1998. MKE-Quantum co-sponsored the event,
which drew about twenty-five participants including representatives
from Maxtor Corporation, Roscamp Engineering and the University of
Colorado. MuMAG is an organization of industrial, government and
academic researchers investigating fundamental issues in
micromagnetic modeling through two activities: the establishment of
standard problems for testing micromagnetic simulation software, and
the development of a public domain reference implementation of
micromagnetic simulation software.
Robert McMichael of MSEL led off the workshop with an overview of
muMag, and presented standard problem solutions submitted to NIST by
several developers of micromagnetic simulation software. John Oti of
EEEL gave a demonstration of SimulMag, a micromagnetic design tool he
developed for personal computers. Michael Donahue and Donald Porter of
ITL gave a demonstration of the Object Oriented Micromagnetic Framework
(OOMMF), their portable, extensible software package containing a
micromagnetic solver and associated tools.
The workshop concluded with talks by Pierre Asselin of Roscamp
Engineering and Richard Lansky of MKE-Quantum Components. They
presented two views on the future micromagnetic modeling needs of
the computer hard drive industry, describing which problems are
effectively solved using current techniques and which problems remain
important challenges.
Access to standard problem specifications, submitted solutions,
software, and further information about muMAG is available at
the Micromagnetic Modeling Activity Group web page.
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