[petsc-users] TAOIPM for AC optimal power flow

[Matthew Knepley]

On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 3:23 PM Justin Chang via petsc-users <
petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I am working on a generic AC optimal power flow solver, and I hope to use
> DMNetwork's data structure and TAO's optimization solvers for this purpose.
> Last time I inquired about IPM (maybe 3-4 years ago) I was told that it's
> not suitable for large-scale networks, which is the direction we're hoping
> to go here at NREL. I see right now from the documentation website:
>
> "This algorithm is more of a place-holder for future constrained
> optimization algorithms and should not yet be used for large problems or
> production code."
>
> Is there any plans at the moment to have a high performance implementation
> of IPM in TAO? It would be nice to have a purely PETSc code instead of
> interfacing to something like IPOPT for the optimization.
>

Preliminary question. Are there reasons we expect IPM to be better than
active sets?

  Thanks,

    Matt


> Thanks,
> Justin
>


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