Implementation of a real-time distributed network simulator with PC-cluster

Author

Marti, José R. ; Hollman, Jorge A. ; Calvino-Fraga

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., British Columbia Univ., Vancouver, BC, Canada

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

223

Lastpage

227

Abstract

This paper describes the implementation of a real-time power system simulator based on a distributed cluster of PC desktop computers. A real-time power system simulator based on a PC-cluster can successfully cope with the size requirements of growing power systems and the computational demands of fast transient studies. The distributed version of OVNI is used as a core solver in addition to a developed I/O interface card. Models based on the standard tool for power systems transients simulations, the EMTP program, optimized for real time performance, assure accurate simulation results

Keywords

digital simulation; power system CAD; power system simulation; power system transients; real-time systems; workstation clusters; EMTP program; OVNI; PC cluster; computational demands; input output interface card; personal computer cluster; power system transients simulations; real-time distributed network simulator; real-time power system simulator; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Distributed computing; Personal communication networks; Power engineering computing; Power system modeling; Power system simulation; Power system transients; Real time systems; Substations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Computing in Electrical Engineering, 2000. PARELEC 2000. Proceedings. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Trois-Rivieres, Que.

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0759-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCEE.2000.873633

Filename

873633