News
September 25, 2024
Removed old email forum.
September 11, 2024
Posted 2025 classes.
June 24, 2024
The MCNP Forum is moving to a new venue.
For as long as many MCNP practitioners have interacted with the MCNP Forum, that interaction has taken place via email. For much of its recent history, the email correspondence has been ephemeral, with no mechanism to capture it or otherwise preserve and make available the information exchange and knowledge gained. The MCNP team is changing that. We are pleased to announce the availability of a new MCNP Forum that is enabled by the Discourse software. The new forum is available here: mcnp.discourse.group. Please see the Forum page for instructions on how to join.
The MCNP team will keep the email forum operating for "a while" as folks transition to the new forum. However, we do plan to disable it, so to keep participating in the MCNP Forum, everyone
We hope that this provides a valuable knowledge capture and transfer mechanism with an improved user interface and experience.
January 4, 2024
LANL will host the 2024 MCNP User Symposium on August 19-22, 2024 as a hybrid event. The in-person option will take place at the Los Alamos J.R. Oppenheimer Center while the virtual option will use the Cvent platform. Everyone who wishes to participate in the symposium must register at www.lanl.gov/mcnp2024. If you have questions or suggestions regarding the symposium, please email mcnp2024@lanl.gov. The agenda and summaries of past MCNP User Symposia are available at User Symposia.
December 16, 2023
The Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page is redesigned to be filterable based on labels associated with each question.
August 29, 2023
The MCNP team is pleased to announce the public availability of MCNP version 6.3 at RSICC. Instructions to request the new version of the code can be found here.
August 17, 2023
Added calendar-year 2024 MCNP classes. Some details are still being worked out, but most classes are open for registration. Also updated class webpage to provide downloadable calendar files for each class and for all listed classes.
May 1, 2023
LANL will host the 2023 MCNP User Symposium on September 18-21, 2023 as a hybrid event. The in-person option will take place at the Los Alamos J.R. Oppenheimer Center while the virtual option will use the Cvent platform. Registration is open and we are soliciting abstracts for presentations. Information on both topics is available here. The agenda and summaries of past MCNP User Symposia are available at User Symposia.
April 5, 2023
Another position is now open for a part-time MCNP administrative undergraduate student (IRC120341). Added 2023 Q1 Site Support newsletter to the reference collection.
March 21, 2023
The Monte Carlo Codes group is hiring for a number of positions. Job postings are available at lanl.jobs for post-masters (IRC119271), post-doctoral (IRC119275), user-support (IRC118240), and computational-scientist (IRC119445) positions.
January 26, 2023
A total overhaul is performed on the MCNP Reference Collection. The new webpage has a filterable set of categories that are assigned to each document to assist in navigation (with an “All” category that is similar in length to the old webpage). In addition, BibTeX-style citation details are now available for each document. Each document is also renamed to provide additional information in the filename itself.
Because of some of these changes, most old links to specific sections of (and documents within) the reference collection no longer work. All links throughout the MCNP website have been updated accordingly, but please be sure bookmarks are up to date.
November 30, 2022
Added LANL-delivered 2022 MCNP User Symposium talks to the reference collection. Also added a listing of graduate-level theses and dissertations that rely on the MCNP code.
September 26, 2022
Posted 2023 classes, several older MCNP manuals, and the 2022-Q3 MCNP Site Support newsletter.
September 1, 2022
Published new page describing upcoming and past MCNP User Symposia.
July 7, 2022
A new website is released to support the upcoming MCNP6.3 software release. This new site has its news located here and the former news page is eliminated. The MCNP Site Support newsletters are now available in the reference collection.