Grant: Idea to Innovation

Electrical power systems are the largest man-made distributed nonlinear structures that are composed of a variety of equipment such as generators, transformers, transmission lines, customer loads, spanning thousands of kilometres. Electromagnetic transient simulation (EMT) programs are used analyse and solve major operational and control problems in power systems. EMT simulation of large-scale power systems consumes so much computational power that parallel programming techniques are urgently needed in this area. Currently available off-line EMT simulation programs were designed to run on single-core CPUs, and therefore, cannot take advantage of the multi-core CPUs and many-core graphics processors (GPUs) to manage computational load. Massive-thread computing is one of the key developments that can increase the EMT computational capabilities substantially when the processing unit has enough hardware cores. The aim of this project is to practically implement a parallel massive-thread EMT simulator for large-scale power systems on the GPU hardware architectures. The main features of this work is to design and build massive-thread modules for various power system components, numerical algorithms, graphical user interface (GUI), and validation of the off-line EMT simulator.The project results are expected to prove the feasibility of a functional parallel massive-thread off-line EMT simulator on multiple GPUs that can achieve computational speed-up in large-scale system simulation while using detailed system component models. The project will contribute to the advancement of the EMT simulation technology, and it will utilize an experienced team of researchers for the implementation, and an experienced business strategy consultant from OSSIACO.