Parallel Simulation Of Large-Scale Water Distribution

This paper describes the development of parallel algorithms for the processing of telemetry data in the specific context of water distribution networks. Today's increasing complexity of such systems, together with the requirement for smaller discretisation intervals means that the task of simulating large-scale water distribution networks frequently outgrows the computational power of economically viable single processor systems. One solution to this problem is to partition the computational task into concurrently executable sub-tasks and to implement them on a parallel or distributed processing hardware. This paper compares the performance of two parallel state estimators implemented on a transputer platform. The results obtained with these estimators (to be presented in full at the conference) indicate the effectiveness of each technique by reflecting on the convergence rate of the state estimators, the capability of identification/rejection of bad measurements, the consideration of ..