HERON in Workbench

HERON has been integrated with the NEAMS Workbench IDE ("Workbench") to improve user experience and accelerate analysis. This page offers guidance on using HERON in Workbench.

Using HERON and Workbench on NCRC

For those with access to the INL High Performance Computing environment, Workbench is available as part of NCRC and is configured for direct use by launching a session. No further installation is required.

Using HERON and Workbench on a local machine

If an HPC environment is not being used, Workbench and HERON can be installed on a local machine using the following process.

Installing Workbench

Binaries for installing Workbench are available through ORNL at https://code.ornl.gov/neams-workbench/downloads/, with installation instructions at https://code.ornl.gov/neams-workbench/downloads/#install-neams-workbench further down the page. Follow instructions on that page to install Workbench for your OS.

Adding HERON to Workbench

Click File -> Configurations -> Add -> Heron and in the Executable Value column specify the path to HERON.

Converting XML files to .heron files

There is a command line workbench tool to convert XML HERON input files into .heron files used by Workbench.

WB/rte/entry.sh WB/rte/util/xml2eddi.py path/to/heron_input.xml > path/to/heron_input.heron