# ModelBuilder for ACE3P

One of Kiware's important collaborations is with the [SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory](https://www.slac.stanford.edu/) in Menlo Park, CA. Scientists at SLAC are exploring high energy physics, a branch of physics probing the nature of particles that constitute matter and radiation. Large particle accelerators are the primary machinery for experimental research in particle physics. To aid in the design of major components for new state of the art particle accelerators, a team at SLAC developed the software suite ACE3P (Advanced Computational Electromagnetics 3D Parallel), which provides a comprehensive set of conformal, parallel finite-element electromagnetics codes focused on particle accelerator simulation at high fidelity and scale.Kitware is actively collaborating with SLAC to develop a customized version of ModelBuilder for ACE3P that combines CMB's standard preprocessing and visualization capabilities with specialized data management and project workflow features. For instance, using ModelBuilder for ACE3P, users can directly submit simulation jobs to high performance computing (HPC) mainframes at the [National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center](https://www.nersc.gov) (NERSC), a major Department of Energy scientific computing facility affiliated with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
