Parallel computing of two-parameter bifurcation diagrams of an electric arc model with chaotic dynamics using Nvidia CUDA and OpenMP technologies

This paper presents parallel and massively parallel calculations of two-parameter bifurcation diagrams of an electric arc model. A simple dynamical model of electric arc is used. Such a model can show complex two-parameter bifurcations with periodic and chaotic responses. Two different parallel computing technologies were used to implement the calculations. Parallel computations are implemented using the OpenMP library and CPU processors. Massively parallel computations are implemented using the Nvidia CUDA technology and GPU processors.