Parallel processing applied on the electric grounding systems design

Electrical engineering is a source of problems that can take advantage of the parallel processing on computing. It happens once the kind of numeric solution is often done by the evaluation of linear equations put in matrix style. Concrete encased grounding systems are a powerful answer to the grounding design problem. It uses the metal embedded in the concrete structure of the building as grounding electrodes. Nevertheless, the great demand of computer processing, necessary to calculate such a grounding system, makes it difficult to use sequential program implementation. This paper presents the basis of the engineering problem and a parallel tool, called PENCAPS, that implements the numeric solution developed to solve concrete encased electrode grounding systems.