93 research outputs found
Universality of (2+1)-dimensional restricted solid-on-solid models
Extensive dynamical simulations of Restricted Solid on Solid models in
dimensions have been done using parallel multisurface algorithms
implemented on graphics cards. Numerical evidence is presented that these
models exhibit KPZ surface growth scaling, irrespective of the step heights
. We show that by increasing the corrections to scaling increase, thus
smaller step-sized models describe better the asymptotic, long-wave-scaling
behavior
Bit-Vectorized GPU Implementation of a Stochastic Cellular Automaton Model for Surface Growth
Stochastic surface growth models aid in studying properties of universality
classes like the Kardar--Paris--Zhang class. High precision results obtained
from large scale computational studies can be transferred to many physical
systems. Many properties, such as roughening and some two-time functions can be
studied using stochastic cellular automaton (SCA) variants of stochastic
models. Here we present a highly efficient SCA implementation of a surface
growth model capable of simulating billions of lattice sites on a single GPU.
We also provide insight into cases requiring arbitrary random probabilities
which are not accessible through bit-vectorization.Comment: INES 2016, Budapest http://www.ines-conf.org/ines-conf/2016index.htm
Revisiting and modeling power-law distributions in empirical outage data of power systems
The size distribution of planned and forced outages and following restoration
times in power systems have been studied for almost two decades and has drawn
great interest as they display heavy tails. Understanding of this phenomenon
has been done by various threshold models, which are self-tuned at their
critical points, but as many papers pointed out, explanations are intuitive,
and more empirical data is needed to support hypotheses. In this paper, the
authors analyze outage data collected from various public sources to calculate
the outage energy and outage duration exponents of possible power-law fits.
Temporal thresholds are applied to identify crossovers from initial short-time
behavior to power-law tails. We revisit and add to the possible explanations of
the uniformness of these exponents. By performing power spectral analyses on
the outage event time series and the outage duration time series, it is found
that, on the one hand, while being overwhelmed by white noise, outage events
show traits of self-organized criticality (SOC), which may be modeled by a
crossover from random percolation to directed percolation branching process
with dissipation, coupled to a conserved density. On the other hand, in
responses to outages, the heavy tails in outage duration distributions could be
a consequence of the highly optimized tolerance (HOT) mechanism, based on the
optimized allocation of maintenance resources.Comment: 16 pages, 8 figure
Extremely large scale simulation of a Kardar-Parisi-Zhang model using graphics cards
The octahedron model introduced recently has been implemented onto graphics
cards, which permits extremely large scale simulations via binary lattice gases
and bit coded algorithms. We confirm scaling behaviour belonging to the 2d
Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class and find a surface growth exponent:
beta=0.2415(15) on 2^17 x 2^17 systems, ruling out beta=1/4 suggested by field
theory. The maximum speed-up with respect to a single CPU is 240. The steady
state has been analysed by finite size scaling and a growth exponent
alpha=0.393(4) is found. Correction to scaling exponents are computed and the
power-spectrum density of the steady state is determined. We calculate the
universal scaling functions, cumulants and show that the limit distribution can
be obtained by the sizes considered. We provide numerical fitting for the small
and large tail behaviour of the steady state scaling function of the interface
width.Comment: 7 pages, 8 figures, slightly modified, accepted version for PR
Dynamical heterogeneity and universality of power-grids
While weak, tuned asymmetry can improve, strong heterogeneity destroys
synchronization in the electric power system. We study the level of
heterogeneity, by comparing large high voltage (HV) power-grids of Europe and
North America. We provide an analysis of power capacities and loads of various
energy sources from the databases and found heavy tailed distributions with
similar characteristics. Graph topological measures, community structures also
exhibit strong similarities, while the cable admittance distributions can be
well fitted with the same power-laws (PL), related to the length distributions.
The community detection analysis shows the level of synchronization in
different domains of the European HV power grids, by solving a set of swing
equations. We provide numerical evidence for frustrated synchronization and
Chimera states and point out the relation of topology and level of
synchronization in the subsystems. We also provide empirical data analysis of
the frequency heterogeneities within the Hungarian HV network and find
q-Gaussian distributions related to super-statistics of time-lagged
fluctuations, which agree well with former results on the Nordic Grid.Comment: 15 pages, 15 figure
Reconstructing Velocities of Migrating Birds from Weather Radar – A Case Study in Computational Sustainability
Bird migration occurs at the largest of global scales, but monitoring such movements can be challenging. In the US there is an operational network of weather radars providing freely accessible data for monitoring meteorological phenomena in the atmosphere. Individual radars are sensitive enough to detect birds, and can provide insight into migratory behaviors of birds at scales that are not possible using other sensors. Archived data from the WSR-88D network of US weather radars hold valuable and detailed information about the continent-scale migratory movements of birds over the last 20 years. However, significant technical challenges must be overcome to understand this information and harness its potential for science and conservation. We describe recent work on an AI system to quantify bird migration using radar data, which is part of the larger BirdCast project to model and forecast bird migration at large scales using radar, weather, and citizen science data
Research software on wings: Automating software publication with rich metadata
Publishing your research software in a publication repository is the first step on the path to making your software FAIR! But the publication of just the software itself is not quite enough: To truly enable findability, accessibility and reproducibility, as well as making your software correctly citable and unlock credit for your work, your software publication must come with the rich metadata that support these goals.
But where will these metadata come from? And who should compile and publish them? Will RSEs have to become metadata experts as well now?
In this talk, we argue that source code repositories and connected platforms often already provide many useful metadata, even if they are distributed over heterogeneous sources. We present an open source software toolchain that will help harvest these metadata, process and collate them, preparing them for submission to publication repositories. This toolchain can be automated via continuous integration platforms, and publish the prepared metadata with or without the respective software artifacts for open and closed source software alike. It can also feed the collated metadata back to source code repositories, or provide them in different formats for further reuse.
The talk will outline the concept for the automated publication of research software with rich metadata and describe the current state of the software toolchain that is being developed. It will also detail the CI and publication platforms it will initially be available for, additional resources such as documentation and training materials, and give an outlook on sustainability and future development
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