1) uriarte presentation advisory panel

MULTICORE SIMULATION OF SHIPBOARD POWER SYSTEMS

By

Fabian M. Uriarte

Center for Electromechanics

University of Texas at Austin

April 27, 2011

Presentation outline

Problem State of the art

Our approach

Demo video

(3 min.)

Conclusions

Problem Statement

3.16 GHz, dual-core

tend = 6 sΔt=2 μs

<1 week

Presentation outline

Problem State of the art

Our approach

Demo video

(3 min.)

Conclusions

State of the artHardware

Software

, endt t

Presentation outline

Problem State of the art

Our approach

Demo video

(3 min.)

Conclusions

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Our solution approach

2006• 2

cores

2007• 4 cores

2010• 6

cores

20XX• N

cores

Multicore RoadmapSpeed

Cost

Power system simulators

SimPowerSystems

CEMSolver*

Results

*Center for electromechanics (power system) solver

Presentation outline

Problem statement

State of the art

Our solution

approach

Demo video

(3 min.)

Conclusions

Conclusions Ship simulations can take

days Bottleneck is not the

hardware UT is developing a

multicore solver Multicore computers are

ubiquitous Our focus is

the computational engine not the user interface not the plotting tool

Speedups so far >40x 23 min. 0.5 min.