Benchmarks

Linear algebra frameworks benchmark

IEEE 39 1-year time series

The experiment is to test the time taken by the time series simulation using different linear algebra solvers.

The power flow tolerance is ser to 1e-4.

The time in seconds taken using each of the solvers is:

	KLU	BLAS/LAPACK	ILU	SuperLU	Pardiso
Test 1 Test 2 Test 3 Test 4 Test 5	82.0306398868561 80.2231616973877 79.5343339443207 80.0667154788971 80.0720291137695	82.1049809455872 80.8419146537781 82.3211221694946 82.6606991291046 80.5129723548889	81.7956540584564 81.7140426635742 82.7529213428497 82.1418635845184 81.9473338127136	82.8895554542542 81.3713464736938 80.9804055690765 80.178496837616 80.0363531112671	93.2362771034241 95.2913007736206 92.6268711090088 97.6009163856506 93.3938195705414
Average	80.3853760242462	81.6883378505707	82.0703630924225	81.0912314891815	94.4298369884491

2869 Pegase 1-week time series

The experiment is to test the time taken by the time series simulation using different linear algebra solvers.

The power flow tolerance is ser to 1e-4.

The time in seconds taken using each of the solvers is:

	KLU	BLAS/LAPACK	ILU	SuperLU	Pardiso
Test 1 Test 2 Test 3 Test 4 Test 5	2.46547317504882 2.35307431221008 2.40140151977539 2.33513951301574 2.31796050071716	2.50752806663513 2.31241440773010 2.42792844772338 2.31270241737365 2.32209181785583	2.52735018730163 2.36424255371093 2.46322917938232 2.34093046188354 2.45891189575195	2.48413443565368 2.32830643653869 2.46966910362243 2.33488821983337 2.33409214019775	2.54547953605651 2.59090781211853 2.46686577796936 2.42691206932067 2.51999592781066
Average	2.37460980415344	2.37653303146362	2.43093285560608	2.39021806716919	2.51003222465515

So from the light of these tests the solvers are roughly equivalent except the Pardiso one with is worse than the others for these type of simulations.