Electrical distribution grid visualization using programmable GPUs

Author

Rodríguez, Javier Novo ; Canosa, Mariano Cabrero ; Pereira, Elena Hernández

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of A Coruna, A Coruña, Spain

fYear

2010

fDate

19-21 May 2010

Firstpage

1231

Lastpage

1235

Abstract

Modern graphic cards enable applications to process big amounts of graphical data faster than CPUs, allowing high-volume parallelizable data to be visualized in real-time. In this paper, we present an approach to enable a power grid planning Computer-Aided-Design application to use this processing power to visualize electrical distribution grids in the fastest possible way. As a result, the aforesaid application became able to offer highly responsive interactions with them.

Keywords

computer graphics; power distribution; power distribution planning; power grids; power system CAD; program visualisation; computer-aided-design application; electrical distribution grid visualization; graphic cards; graphical data faster; power grid planning; programmable GPU; Application software; Computer applications; Computer science; Data visualization; Distributed computing; Graphics; Grid computing; Hardware; Power grids; Rendering (computer graphics);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Engineering/Electronics Computer Telecommunications and Information Technology (ECTI-CON), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chaing Mai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5606-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5607-9

Type

conf

Filename

5491674