Parallel Computing Environments and Methods for Power Distribution System Simulation
<|reference_start|>Parallel Computing Environments and Methods for Power Distribution System Simulation: 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.<|reference_end|>
@article{lu2004parallel,
    title={Parallel Computing Environments and Methods for Power Distribution
  System Simulation},
    author={Ning Lu, Z. Todd Taylor, David P. Chassin, Ross T. Guttromson, R.
  Scott Studham},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0409035},
    year={2004},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cs/0409035},
    primaryClass={cs.DC cs.CE cs.MA cs.PF}
}