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The alternating current optimal power flow (AC-OPF) problem is critical to power system operations and planning, but it is generally hard to solve due to its nonconvex and large-scale nature. This paper proposes a scalable decomposition…
The Optimal Power Flow (OPF) problem is a fundamental building block for the optimization of electrical power systems. It is nonlinear and nonconvex and computes the generator setpoints for power and voltage, given a set of load demands. It…
Fitting complicated models to large datasets is a bottleneck of many analyses. We present GooFit, a library and tool for constructing arbitrarily-complex probability density functions (PDFs) to be evaluated on nVidia GPUs or on multicore…
Fast and accurate optimization and simulation is widely becoming a necessity for large scale transmission resiliency and planning studies such as N-1 SCOPF, batch contingency solvers, and stochastic power flow. Current commercial tools,…
The Alternating Current Optimal Transmission Switching (ACOTS) problem incorporates line switching decisions into the AC Optimal Power Flow (ACOPF) framework, offering well-known benefits in reducing operational costs and enhancing system…
Discrete optimization is a central problem in artificial intelligence. The optimization of the aggregated cost of a network of cost functions arises in a variety of problems including (W)CSP, DCOP, as well as optimization in stochastic…
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We present a new library for parallel distributed Fast Fourier Transforms (FFT). The importance of FFT in science and engineering and the advances in high performance computing necessitate further improvements. AccFFT extends existing FFT…
Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) uses runtime profiling to direct compiler optimization decisions, effectively combining static analysis with actual execution behavior to enhance performance. Runtime profiles, collected through…
State-of-the-art optimization is steadily shifting towards massively parallel pipelines with extremely large batch sizes. As a consequence, CPU-bound preprocessing and disk/memory/network operations have emerged as new performance…
In recent years, there has been significant interest in the development of machine learning-based optimization proxies for AC Optimal Power Flow (AC-OPF). Although significant progress has been achieved in predicting high-quality primal…
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This paper proposes a convex optimization based distributed algorithm to solve multi-period optimal gas-power flow (OGPF) in coupled energy distribution systems. At the gas distribution system side, the non-convex Weymouth gas flow…
High performance grid computing is a key enabler of large scale collaborative computational science. With the promise of exascale computing, high performance grid systems are expected to incur electricity bills that grow super-linearly over…
As we enter the exascale computing era, efficiently utilizing power and optimizing the performance of scientific applications under power and energy constraints has become critical and challenging. We propose a low-overhead autotuning…
This paper proposes a coordinated optimal scheduling model for hybrid AC/DC microgrids. The objective of the proposed model is to minimize the total microgrid operation cost when considering interactions between AC and DC sub-systems of the…
Electric power grids are essential components of modern life, delivering reliable power to end-users while adhering to a multitude of engineering constraints and requirements. In grid operations, the Optimal Power Flow problem plays a key…
The increasing use of heterogeneous embedded systems with multi-core CPUs and Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) presents important challenges in effectively exploiting pipeline, task and data-level parallelism to meet throughput requirements…
Electric power grids regularly experience uncertain fluctuations from load demands and renewables, which poses a risk of violating operational limits designed to safeguard the system. In this paper, we consider the robust AC OPF problem…