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2004
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Parallel Computing Environments and Methods for Power Distribution System Simulation

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Parallel Computing Environments and Methods for Power Distribution System Simulation
Abstract -- 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 perfo...
Ning Lu, Z. Todd Taylor, David P. Chassin, Ross T.
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Type Journal
Year 2004
Where CORR
Authors Ning Lu, Z. Todd Taylor, David P. Chassin, Ross T. Guttromson, R. Scott Studham
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