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Metacomputing for on-line Stability Analysis in power systems: A proposal

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High-Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN-Europe 1996)

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The on-line Transient Stability Analysis (TSA) is a challenge problem in power systems, concerning the detection of fault conditions (contingencies) which can produce instability in the power networks. In the paper the issues related to the use of metacomputing for on-line TSA have been analyzed and a solution is proposed allowing the simulation of hundreds of dynamic stability contingencies as required for an accurate TSA. The virtual nodes of the proposed metacomputer are based both on parallel, distributed and vector machines. A class of TSA algorithms have been implemented and tested on each virtual node, exploiting dynamic load-balancing technique and evaluating for each node the more appropriate decomposition scheme. PVM has been used as communication environment among virtual nodes of the metacomputer, while Express has been used on some local parallel resources. The tests were carried out in order to design a metacomputing experiment based on the research network infrastructure available in Italy for academic and research institutions (GARR) and on the ATM network resources provided by the NeaNet experimental environment available in the Naples area.

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  1. Facoltà di Ingegneria, Università Degli Studi di Lecce, Italy

    G. Aloisio & M. A. Bochicchio

  2. Facoltà di Ingegneria, Università Degli Studi di Napoli, Italy

    M. La Scala

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Aloisio, G., Bochicchio, M.A., La Scala, M. (1996). Metacomputing for on-line Stability Analysis in power systems: A proposal. In: Liddell, H., Colbrook, A., Hertzberger, B., Sloot, P. (eds) High-Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1067. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61142-8_579

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