DEVELOPING INTEGRATION TOOLS FOR VARIOUS COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS

PURPOSE. The paper describes the developed software that meets the requirements of the approach universality to storing of the initial information, visualization of power systems with a large number of nodes and connections. This software provides the possibility to create user objects, bind visualization objects to spatial coordinates, and integrate them into various computing environments. METHODS. Taking into consideration the fact that when working with the virtual model of the system visualization can be performed several times and that different calculations can be performed in the system, the visualization process itself does not differ fundamentally in the implementation of various computational procedures. However, it is impossible and irrational to implement all possible computational algorithms in one environment, so it is proposed to integrate the visualization application into other applications and implement a communication channel between them. This concept of the communication channel was named the Bridge (Visualization Engine Bridge). This approach uses a third-party file to exchange the necessary information between the computational and visual applications. RESULTS AND THEIR DISCUSSION. The tested communication channel between the application and the MATLAB computing environment is exemplified by the 18-node scheme. The visualization application initialized the calculation of the steady-state mode by the Newton-Raphson method with all connected communication lines and with one disabled communication line. The obtained results have demonstrated the operating capacity of the proposed approach. CONCLUSIONS. The software has been developed that meets the universality requirement of the approach to information storage, visualization of networks with a large number of nodes and connections. This program allows to create user objects, display graphically connections between the nodes in the form of polylines, integrate into various computing environments and bind data to geographic coordinates.

visualization, software, power system graph, node, connection, calculation of the steady state mode

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