Real-time simulation for power systems based on parallel computing - an empirical study

Abstract

Abstract
Computer simulation is a versatile and
commonly used tool for the design and
evaluation of systems with different degrees of
complexity. Power distribution systems and
electric railway network are areas for which
computer simulations are being heavily applied.
A dominant factor in evaluating the performance
of a software simulator is its processing time,
especially in the cases of real-time simulation.
Parallel processing provides a viable mean to
reduce the computing time and is therefore
suitable for building real-time simulators. In this
paper, we present different issues related to
solving the power distribution system with
parallel computing based on a multiple-CPU
server and we will concentrate, in particular, on
the speedup performance of such an approach.