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A massively parallel interior-point solver for LPs with generalized arrowhead structure, and applications to energy system models

  • Linear energy system models are a crucial component of energy system design and operations, as well as energy policy consulting. If detailed enough, such models lead to large-scale linear programs, which can be intractable even for the best state-of-the-art solvers. This article introduces an interior-point solver that exploits common structures of energy system models to efficiently run in parallel on distributed-memory systems. The solver is designed for linear programs with doubly-bordered block-diagonal constraint matrix and makes use of a Schur complement based decomposition. In order to handle the large number of linking constraints and variables commonly observed in energy system models, a distributed Schur complement preconditioner is used. In addition, the solver features a number of more generic techniques such as parallel matrix scaling and structure-preserving presolving. The implementation is based on the solver PIPS-IPM. We evaluate the computational performance on energy system models with up to four billion nonzero entries in the constraint matrix—and up to one billion columns and one billion rows. This article mainly concentrates on the energy system model ELMOD, which is a linear optimization model representing the European electricity markets by the use of a nodal pricing market-clearing. It has been widely applied in the literature on energy system analyses in recent years. However, it will be demonstrated that the new solver is also applicable to other energy system models.

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Author:Daniel Rehfeldt, Hannes Hobbie, David Schönheit, Thorsten Koch, Dominik Möst, Ambros GleixnerORCiD
Document Type:Article
Parent Title (English):European Journal of Operational Research
Volume:296
Issue:1
First Page:60
Last Page:71
Year of first publication:2022
Preprint:urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-74321
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2021.06.063
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