Using a Parallel Virtual Machine to Optimize Lighting Systems

Author

Kasprzyk, Leszek ; Nawrowski, Ryszard ; Tomczewski, Andrzej

Author_Institution

Poznan Univ. of Technol.

fYear

2006

fDate

13-17 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

427

Lastpage

432

Abstract

The paper presents the possibilities of using a parallel virtual machine for cost optimization of complex lighting systems. The objective function includes entire costs of the lighting systems. In order to determine the distribution of the luminous flux in one of the optimization algorithms a heterogeneous virtual machine was used. Communication between the processes was effected with the help of the MPICH-2 library, operating under the LINUX SuSE 10.0 system. The results of example optimized computation, speedup and efficiency of a parallel algorithm analysis of electromagnetic field (visible range) are presented

Keywords

electrical engineering computing; lighting; parallel algorithms; virtual machines; cost optimization; electromagnetic field; heterogeneous virtual machine; lighting system; parallel algorithm analysis; parallel virtual machine; Algorithm design and analysis; Concurrent computing; Cost function; Electrical engineering; Electromagnetic analysis; Electromagnetic fields; Libraries; Optimization methods; Paper technology; Virtual machining;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Computing in Electrical Engineering, 2006. PAR ELEC 2006. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Bialystok

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2554-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PARELEC.2006.84

Filename

1698699