A survey of high-performance computing approaches in power systems

Abstract

As the size of power systems increases, conventional serial-execution based computing platforms are proving to be insufficient to fulfil the computational demands of modern power systems. To address this, researchers have proposed several high-performance computing (HPC) approaches for benefiting power systems. In this paper, we survey several HPC approaches proposed for power systems. We classify these approaches based on their key characteristics and briefly summarize the challenges in using HPC for benefiting power systems. We believe that this survey will help the readers gain insights into state-of-the-art of HPC in power systems.