Implementation of Parallel Dynamic Simulation on Shared-Memory vs. Distributed-Memory Environments

Conference · Wed Dec 09 04:00:00 EST 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2015.12.381· OSTI ID:1254604

Jin, Shuangshuang; Chen, Yousu; Wu, Di; Diao, Ruisheng; Huang, Zhenyu

Power system dynamic simulation computes the system response to a sequence of large disturbance, such as sudden changes in generation or load, or a network short circuit followed by protective branch switching operation. It consists of a large set of differential and algebraic equations, which is computational intensive and challenging to solve using single-processor based dynamic simulation solution. High-performance computing (HPC) based parallel computing is a very promising technology to speed up the computation and facilitate the simulation process. This paper presents two different parallel implementations of power grid dynamic simulation using Open Multi-processing (OpenMP) on shared-memory platform, and Message Passing Interface (MPI) on distributed-memory clusters, respectively. The difference of the parallel simulation algorithms and architectures of the two HPC technologies are illustrated, and their performances for running parallel dynamic simulation are compared and demonstrated.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 1254604
• Report Number(s): PNNL-SA-100015; TE1103000
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

HPC
MPI
OpenMP
dynamic simulation