Parallel Computing Environments and Methods for Power Distribution System Simulation
| dc.creator | Lu, Ning | |
| dc.creator | Taylor, Z. Todd | |
| dc.creator | Chassin, David P. | |
| dc.creator | Guttromson, Ross T. | |
| dc.creator | Studham, R. Scott | |
| dc.date | 2004-09-18 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T03:21:47Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T03:21:47Z | |
| dc.description | The development of cost-effective highperformance parallel computing on multi-processor supercomputers makes it attractive to port excessively time consuming simulation software from personal computers (PC) to super computes. The power distribution system simulator (PDSS) takes a bottom-up approach and simulates load at the appliance level, where detailed thermal models for appliances are used. This approach works well for a small power distribution system consisting of a few thousand appliances. When the number of appliances increases, the simulation uses up the PC memory and its runtime increases to a point where the approach is no longer feasible to model a practical large power distribution system. This paper presents an effort made to port a PC-based power distribution system simulator to a 128-processor shared-memory supercomputer. The paper offers an overview of the parallel computing environment and a description of the modification made to the PDSS model. The performance of the PDSS running on a standalone PC and on the supercomputer is compared. Future research direction of utilizing parallel computing in the power distribution system simulation is also addressed. | |
| dc.description | 7 pages, 4 figures, 6 tables, submitted to HICSS-38 | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0409035 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0409035 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/32338 | |
| dc.subject | Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing | |
| dc.subject | Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science | |
| dc.subject | Multiagent Systems | |
| dc.subject | Performance | |
| dc.title | Parallel Computing Environments and Methods for Power Distribution System Simulation | |
| dc.type | text |