Distributed processing for contingency screening applications

The emergence and widespread availability of network computing have made it possible for many computationally intensive applications to take advantage of distributing processing techniques at almost no additional cost. In this paper, the authors present a successful implementation of distributed processing for screening all possible single contingencies in an electric power network model. The implementation is based on the remote execution model that is available in most UNIX based workstations. Test results show that near ideal speedups can be achieved for the contingency screening applications