The sequence of steps taken by the multicore solver when solving the parallel equations presented in the previous chapters was carried out using Microsoft C# as the programming language. This chapter evaluates runtimes as power systems are partitioned several times. This chapter also evaluates the potential speedups of using node and mesh tearing-and of other metrics as well-of simulating Systems 1, 2, 3, and 4 with the multicore solver developed for this book. Such multicore solver, written entirely in C#, implements all concepts introduced in earlier chapters.

Chapter Contents:

• 9.1 Performance metrics
• 9.2 Benchmark results and analysis
• 9.2.1 System 1
• 9.2.2 System 2
• 9.2.3 System 3
• 9.2.4 System 4
• 9.3 Summary of results
• 9.4 Summary

Inspec keywords: software performance evaluation; power system transients; programming languages; power system simulation

Other keywords: power system transients; Microsoft C#; multicore simulation; programming language; performance analysis

Subjects: Power systems; High level languages; Power engineering computing; Software performance evaluation