Accelerating the simulation of shipboard power systems

Proceedings of the 2011 - Grand Challenges in Modeling and Simulation Conference, GCMS 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 22-29

  Uriarte, F M ^a   Hebner, R E ^a   Gattozzi, A L ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Multicore; Parallel; Partitioning; Power; Ship

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX SIMULATION; ELECTRO-MECHANICS; MULTI CORE; MULTI-CORE DESKTOP; MULTICORE TECHNOLOGY; PARALLEL; PARTITIONING; PC-BASED; POWER; POWER SYSTEM MODEL; POWER SYSTEM SIMULATORS; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; RUNTIMES; SHIPBOARD POWER SYSTEM; SUBSYSTEM LEVEL; UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS;

ELECTRIC LOAD FORECASTING; INTELLIGENT NETWORKS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; SHIPS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84871263412     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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