November 2023

Conference Paper

Towards Efficient Alternating Current Optimal Power Flow Analysis on Graphical Processing Units

By:
Swirydowicz, Kasia; Koukpaizan, Nicholson K; Abhyankar, Shrirang; Peles, Slaven
Page Number:
1-6
Issue Number:
N/A
Book Title:
2023 XXIX International Conference on Information, Communication and Automation Technologies (ICAT)
Publication Date:
November 9, 2023
Publisher Location:
IEEE, New Jersey, United States of America
Conference Name:
International Conference on Information, Communication and Automation Technologies (ICAT)
Conference Location:
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Conference Sponsor:
IEEE
View DOI Listing:
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAT57854.2023.10171317

Abstract

We present a solution of sparse alternating current optimal power flow (ACOPF) analysis on graphical processing unit (GPU). In particular, we discuss the performance bottlenecks and detail our efforts to accelerate the linear solver, a core component of ACOPF that dominates the computational time. ACOPF analyses of two large-scale systems, synthetic Northeast (25,000 buses) and Eastern (70,000 buses) U.S. grids [1], on GPU show promising speed-up compared to analyses on central processing unit (CPU) using a state-of-the-art solver. To our knowledge, this is the first result demonstrating a significant acceleration of sparse ACOPF on GPUs.

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