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Four nominees to serve on the Tennessee Valley Authority Board of Directors told the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee that they support the build-out of new advanced nuclear reactors to meet the increased energy demand being shouldered by the country’s largest public utility.
Prem N. Mahana, F. N. Trofimenkoff
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 101 | Number 4 | April 1989 | Pages 303-314
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE89-A23620
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Parallelization of the Porsching algorithm for the numerical integration of hydraulic network conservation equations is described, and a theoretical analysis of the performance of the parallelized algorithm on a MIMD-type parallel computer is given. It is shown that good speedup and efficiency of parallel processing can be achieved by using a quasi-MIMD mode of operation employing (a) a master/slave configuration of processors, (b) message passing for data communication, (c) global synchronization of all processors before data communication, (d) a simple time-shared bus with data broadcast facility as the interconnection network, and (e) distributed communication memories for data communication.
