Simulation of large-scale electrical power networks on graphics processing units

2011 IEEE Electrical Power and Energy Conference, EPEC 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 199-204

  Debnath, Jayanta Kumar ^a   Fung, Wai Keung ^a   Gole, Aniruddha M ^a   Filizadeh, Shaahin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL POWER NETWORKS; ELECTROMAGNETIC TRANSIENTS; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; LARGE-SCALE POWER SYSTEMS; MULTIPLE PROCESSING CORES; NETWORK SIZE; SIMULATION TIME; SIMULATION TOOL;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; ELECTRICITY; IMAGE CODING; POWER QUALITY; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 82955173048     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EPEC.2011.6070195     Document Type: Conference Paper

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