An introduction to open-source linear algebra tools and parallelisation for power system applications

Author

De Rybel, Tom ; Tomim, Marcelo ; Singh, Arvind ; Martí, José R.

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2008

fDate

6-7 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

This paper presents a number of commonly used, open-source libraries for numerically intensive computations. Basic guidelines for the construction of a cluster based on off-the-shelf personal computers will also be given. Examples of the solution algorithms and performance gains achievable in solving some typical power system problems, both in a single machine as well as in a distributed environment, will also be demonstrated.

Keywords

linear algebra; power engineering computing; power system simulation; off-the-shelf personal computers; open-source linear algebra tools; power system application parallelisation; Clustering algorithms; Computational modeling; Concurrent computing; Hardware; Libraries; Linear algebra; Open source software; Power engineering and energy; Power system simulation; Power systems; distributed algorithms; distributed computing; linear algebra; message passing; parallel computing; power system simulation; sparse matrices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electric Power Conference, 2008. EPEC 2008. IEEE Canada

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2894-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2895-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EPC.2008.4763372

Filename

4763372