Web-based simulations of power systems

This article describes an attempt to create a completely Web-based, platform-independent, power system simulation package with various analyses distributed in a clustered environment. This is done in order to retain many of the existing simulation routines that have already been implemented on multiple platforms while sharing many common facilities and resources. It achieves this by leveraging heavily on the advanced distributed computing technologies and by using the model-view-controller (MVC) concept. Applying this design concept demonstrates the potential and advantages of embracing the Web as the platform for developing and deploying complex power system simulations.