This work presents the authors' investigation regarding the application of parallel processing to the design of grounding systems, comprising concrete encased electrodes. The natural parallelism of the involved tasks and the large time-consuming characteristic of sequential processing for this kind of application justify the use of high performance computation. This design problem presents two main approaches for parallelism exploring. This work shows the advantages of parallel processing for generation of a geometric coefficient matrix, which describes the basic relations among currents and potentials at the grounding system. The grounding model has been developed at Federal University of Minas Gerais and, for implementing the parallel algorithm version, a computational tool (CPAR), which was developed in Polytechnic School of Sao Paulo University, was employed.
Did you find this white paper useful?
7 out of 11 users found this white paper useful
Related white papers
Parallel Processing Solves the DTV Format Conversion Problem
The FCC mandate to broadcast Digital Television (DTV) has forced broadcasters to face the challenge of integrating High Definition Television (HDTV) programming into their NTSC or 601 plants. In the...
An Introduction to Parallel Computing on Clusters of Machines and on the SP
The development of new parallel applications and the parallelization of existing sequential or serial applications to fully exploit the power of a distributed system, such as a cluster of machines...
High-Performance FFT Implementation on the BOPS ManArray Parallel DSP
We present a high performance implementation of the FFT algorithm on the BOPS ManArray parallel DSP processor. The ManArray we consider for this application consists of an array controller and...
Sun Parallel File System
The Sun Parallel File System (PFS) is a part of the Sun High Performance Computing Software (HPC) 2.0 package, and provides high-performance file I/O to multiprocess applications running in distributed-memory,...
The Sun Fire 280R Server
Today, departments, teams, and even small businesses have come to rely on a unique class of small server systems to help them complete their tasks. Modern workgroup servers, like those...
NEC Implements Oracle Parallel Server on Virtual Interface Architecture-Based System
NEC has developed a leading edge architecture design that delivers unsurpassed performance for inter-node communication of cluster systems. NEC's V1000 Network Interface Card (NIC) based on Virtual Interface Architecture (VI...
Design of a Performance Technology Infrastructure to Support the Construction of Responsive Software
The construction of software that meets its performance objectives is a challenging task considering the distributed nature of modern architectures. Although substantial progress is being made in areas of performance...
