USCD1209 FIZCON-8.03.

1. NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM:  FIZCON-8.03

3. DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM OR FUNCTION

  FIZCON is a program for checking that an evaluated data file has valid data and conforms to recommended procedures.

NEW VERSION DIFFERS FROM PREVIOUS VERSION IN THE FOLLOWING FEATURES
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This version corrects all bugs reported to NNDC as of February 1, 2009 and
supersede all previous releases.

Version 8.03   June 2009        A. Trkov
               1. Make error printout conditional for IZAPT>0 in MF10
               2. Skip test on QM in MF10 for MT5

4. METHOD OF SOLUTION

FIZCON can recognise the difference between ENDF-6 and ENDF-5 formats and performs its tests accordingly. Some of the tests performed include:
1. data arrays are in increasing energy order;
2. resonance parameter widths add up to the total;
3. Q-values are reasonable and consistent;
4. no required sections are missing and all cover the proper energy range;
5. secondary distributions are normalized to 1.0;
6. energy conservation in decay spectra.
Optional tests can be performed to check the redundant cross sections, and algorithms can be used to check for possible incorrect entry of data values (Deviant Point test).

6. TYPICAL RUNNING TIME:  Test cases ran in a few seconds.

8. RELATED OR AUXILIARY PROGRAMS:  ENDF UTILITY CODES (USCD1235)

- C. L. Dunford:
ENDF Utility Codes Release 7.01/02
Release 7.01- April 27, 2005
Release 7.02 (FIZCON & PSYCHE only) - May 31, 2005

11. HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS: MACHINE REQUIREMENTS

Tested at the NEA Databank on:
- COMPUTER : 1) Dell Precision Workstation 670,
                Intel Xeon CPU 2.66GHz, 1024Kb
             2) Dell Power Edge 1750 Server
                Dual Intel Xeon 3.2 GHz Pentium IV
- OPERATING SYSTEM : 1) Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1.2600)
                     2) RedHat Entreprise Linux Version 4.8
- COMPILER: 1) Compaq Visual Fortran Professional Edition 6.1
            2) Lahey FORTRAN 95

13. OPERATING SYSTEM UNDER WHICH PROGRAM IS EXECUTED:  Open VMS, Windows and Unix/Linux.

14. OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS

In addition to the batch mode version of each program, there are three interactive versions, one for WINDOWS compiled using HP Visual Fortran, one for OpenVMS and one for UNIX compiled using the Lahey Fortran-95 Compiler. These versions prompt the user for each piece of input data instead of reading it from an input file.

15. NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHORS

   Charles L. DUNFORD
   National Nuclear Data Center
   Building 197D
   Brookhaven National Laboratory
   P.O. Box 5000
   Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
and
   Dr. Andrej TRKOV
   Institute Jozef Stefan
   Jamova 39
   1000 Ljubljana
   SLOVENIA

Fizcon803.inf          This info file
endf_util7p01.doc      Program manual in Word
endf.dat               Input test file
fizcon.out             Author's output test file
fizcon.f               Fortran source file
fizcon-linux-32        Author's executable for Linux 32 bit
fizcon-linux-64        Author's executable for Linux 64 bit
fizcon-windows-32.exe  Author's executable for DOS 32 bit
\DOS
fizcon-aut.out          Output file from author's exe
fizcon-nea.exe          NEA exe file
fizcon-nea.out          Output file from NEA's exe
\Linux
fizcon-aut-l.out        Output file from author's exe
fizcon-nea-l            NEA exe file
fizcon-nea-l.out        Output file from NEA's exe