# (ambitious) Input Library

**URL:** <https://openmc.discourse.group/t/ambitious-input-library/1056>\
**Category:** New Ideas\
**Created:** [March 9, 2021, 11:44am UTC](https://openmc.discourse.group/t/ambitious-input-library/1056 "2021-03-09T11:44:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![cyrus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac91a4/32.png) [@cyrus](https://openmc.discourse.group/u/cyrus)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2021, 11:44am UTC](https://openmc.discourse.group/t/ambitious-input-library/1056/1 "2021-03-09T11:44:27Z")

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I was wondering if, in the spirit of open-source collaboration, it might be helpful to have a centralised collection of models and results? This would be great for testing, demonstrate OpenMC’s real-life modelling capabilities, and provide an additional learning resource.

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**Author:** ![paulromano](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/openmc.discourse.group/paulromano/32/486_2.png) [@paulromano](https://openmc.discourse.group/u/paulromano)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 11:49am UTC](https://openmc.discourse.group/t/ambitious-input-library/1056/2 "2021-03-19T11:49:30Z")

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@cyrus There is a collection of benchmark problems that you can find here:

> **[mit-crpg/benchmarks](https://github.com/mit-crpg/benchmarks)**
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> Collection of models for reactor physics benchmarks

A lot of these models are unfortunately only XML (no Python scripts to generate them) because they predated the Python API, but nevertheless they are a good resource.