The LLNL approach is likely going to use hydrogen for the beam. You can’t fuse protons very easily in a PF.
The part that no one is talking about is that the former team leader of the LLNL team went to DARPA recently and has pushed this concept for five years. Now his former team has funding for the project. Hmmmm. Good science or good networking.
The simulation tool is owned by private company so it can be bought. You need a lot of computational power to run it.
