IEEE PES CAMS hpcGrid Working Group

Teleconference Notes

By Shri Abhyankar

Date: 04/29/2016

Time: 11:00 – 12p Central Time

Attendees

Henry Huang (PNNL)

Victor Zavala (UWM and ANL)

John Grosh (LLNL)

Shri Abhyankar (ANL)

Kibaek Kim (ANL)

Mallik Vellum (PNNL)

Xiaming Feng (ABB)

Lei Wang (PowerTech)

Bryan Palmintier (NREL)

Carmen Borges (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)

Jun Yamazaki (Hitachi)

Agenda

  1. Victor Zavala and Kibaek Kim to give a talk on Parallel Stochastic solvers
  2. Business for the Working Group
  3. Special issue update
  4. Panel session chaired by John Grosh
  5. Agenda for Boston meeting

Discussion Highlights

  1. Kibaek Kim presented on Parallel Stochastic Mixed-Integer Programming Solver
  • Kibaek presented the motivation and formulation of parallel stochastic mixed-integer (SMIP) optimization solvers
  • Different types of SMIP: Bender’s and Dual decomposition
  • Bender’s method works only when integer variables are restricted to the first stage only.
  • DSP: Parallel SMIP solver package
  • Available in Github (github.com/Argonne-National-Laboratory/DSP.git) since June 2014 (BSD license)
  • DSP can read models from StochJUMP package from Julia
  • OOP design
  • Application: Optimal Placement of Dispatchable Computing Loads
  • Where to locate data centers?
  • Optimal Placement of Dispatchable Computing Loads on WECC system
  • SWIFT: Parallel scripting language for easy job scheduling on large machines
  • Application: Stochastic Unit Commitment Problem
  1. Business for the Working Group
  • IEEE Smart Grid Transactions Special Issue on HPC for Power Grid Applications
  • Update: Received 60+ abstracts, Accepted 41 for full submission
  • Received 31 full papers, Finished first round of review
  • 18 moving to the next round of reviews.
  • Target to accept 10 – 15 papers.
  • Panel session sponsored by the Working Group at PES GM 2016
  • Chair: John Grosh (LLNL)
  • Panel session: Tuesday, July 19th from 1pm-3pm ET: HPC for Grid Applications: What can be learned from other fields?
  • Panelists: Jean Bellanger (OPAL-RT), Jeremy Kitner (MIT), Steve Hammond (NREL), Henry Huang (PNNL), and Alex Flueck (IIT).
  • Panel scope: Gather disparate expertise on applications in HPC, discuss what are the commonalities and differences, and what can be incorporated in the electrical grid.
  • IEEE PES magazine article
  • Would focus on this article after the special issue is done.
  • Agenda discussion for 2016 PES GM meeting
  • What activities should we be doing to increase awareness for HPC in the community?
  • Jimmy Peng suggested having a tutorial on HPC for power grid.
  • Bryan: Panel session for follow-up meeting, opportunities to connect with other working groups, task forces. Strategic engagement with other working groups
  • Henry: Have a joint panel session with other group. Big Data group is a good candidate.
  • John: What are the types of technologies from Exascale can be highlighted to the power grid people?
  • Bryan: Demonstrate that HPC can be used on small clusters, does not necessarily need super computers. How do we frame it?
  • Henry: Mini-demonstration of HPC problemsCan be incorporated in the article?
  • Mallik Vallem: Developed large test-cases with Opal-RT (to be covered by Jean Bellanger in the presentation)
  • New task force under IEEE PES PSO Committee started by Tim Heidel – Carleton Coffrin for benchmarking systems. Mallik is our liaison.
  • Working group teleconferences are scheduled based on expressed interest by members to present their research work.