WEST-3 wind turbine simulator development. Volume 1, Summary [microform] : [final report] / prepared by S. Sridhar.
"This report is a summary description of WEST-3, a new real-time wind turbine simulator developed by Paragon Pacific Inc. WEST-3 is an all digital, fully programmable, high performance parallel processing computer. Contained in the report are descriptions of the WEST-3 hardware and software. WE...
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| Format: | Government Document Book |
| Language: | English |
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[El Segundo, CA.] : [Washington, DC] : [Springfield, Va.] :
Paragon Pacific, Inc.; [National Aeronautics and Space Administration] ; [National Technical Information Service, distributor],
[1985]
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| Series: | NASA contractor report ;
NASA CR-174981. |
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| Summary: | "This report is a summary description of WEST-3, a new real-time wind turbine simulator developed by Paragon Pacific Inc. WEST-3 is an all digital, fully programmable, high performance parallel processing computer. Contained in the report are descriptions of the WEST-3 hardware and software. WEST-3 consists of a network of Computational Units (CUs) working in parallel. Each CU is a custom designed high speed digital processor operating independently of other CUs. The CU, which is the main building block of the system, is described in some detail. A major contributor to the high performance of the system is the use a unique method for transferring data among the CUs. The software aspects of WEST-3 covered in the report include the preparation of the simulation model (reformulation, scaling and normalization), and the use of the system software (Translator, Linker, Assembler and Loader). Also given is a description of the wind turbine simulation model used in WEST-3, and some sample results from a study conducted to validate the system. Finally, efforts currently underway to enhance the user friendliness of the system are outlined these include the 32-bit floating point capability, and major improvements in system software."--NTIS abstract. |
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| Item Description: | "July 1985" Distributed to depository libraries in microfiche. |
| Physical Description: | vii, 18 pages : illustrations. Also available via the Internet. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page 12) |