A Parallel Hub-and-Spoke System for Large-Scale Scenario-Based Optimization Under Uncertainty

Bernard Knueven, David Mildebrath, Christopher Muir, John Siirola, Jean-Paul Watson, David Woodruff

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Abstract

Practical solution of stochastic programming problems generally requires the use of parallel computing resources. Here, we describe the open source package mpi-sppy, in which efficient and scalable parallelization is a central feature. We report computational experiments that demonstrate the ability to solve very large stochastic programming problems - including mixed-integer variants - in minutes of wall clock time, efficiently leveraging significant parallel computing resources. We report results for the largest publicly available instances of stochastic mixed-integer unit commitment problems, solving to provably tight optimality gaps. In addition, we introduce a novel software architecture that facilitates combinations of methods for accelerating convergence that can be combined in plug-and-play manner. The mpi-sppy package is written in Python, leverages the widely used Pyomo (http://www.pyomo.org) library for modeling mathematical programs, builds on existing MPI implementations to ensure efficiency and scalability, and is available via http://github.com/Pyomo/mpi-sppy.
Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)591-619
Number of pages29
JournalMathematical Programming Computation
Volume15
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023

NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/JA-2C00-84450

Keywords

  • decomposition strategies
  • parallel computing
  • progressive hedging
  • stochastic programming

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