US 12,717,620 B1Granted

Providing scalable electrical grid simulations

AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.

InventorsAbhineet Himanshu Parchure, Elizabeth Chaos Golubitsky, Adam Charles Siefker, Matthew Markoff, Suyash S Jape, Jason Choong, Nicholas Rheid Hubbard, Alexandra Movsesyan, Venkata Aravind Sai Vaddi

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Abstract

A grid simulation (GS) service performs scalable electrical grid simulations for clients of the service. The GS service receives, from a client (e.g., a utility/grid operator), a request to initiate a simulation session for an electrical grid. Based on the request, the service determines an initial amount of compute capacity to be provisioned for the simulation session. The service initiates the simulation session and provisions the initial amount of compute capacity. The service receives a request to implement a number of electrical grid simulations. If needed, the service will scale up or down the amount of compute capacity to implement the requested electrical grid simulations. The results may be provided to an endpoint.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system, comprising:

one or more processors and one or more memories, wherein the one or more memories have stored thereon instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to implement a grid simulation service (GS service) for a plurality of clients of a provider network, wherein the GS service is configured to, for a given client:
receive, from the client, a request to initiate a simulation session for an electrical grid;
in response to the request to initiate the simulation session:
determine an initial amount of compute capacity to be provisioned for the simulation session, wherein the initial amount of compute capacity is configured to use a grid simulation solver to implement electrical grid simulations on behalf of the client;
and
initiate the simulation session;
and
provision the initial amount of compute capacity;
receive, from the client, a request to implement a plurality of electrical grid simulations;
in response to the request to implement the plurality of electrical grid simulations:
determine, based on the request to implement the plurality of electrical grid simulations, an amount of compute capacity of the simulation session to be used to implement the plurality of electrical grid simulations by the GS service of the provider network;
implement the plurality of electrical grid simulations using the grid simulation solver and the amount of compute capacity to generate results, wherein the amount of compute capacity comprises at least a portion of the initial compute capacity;
and
provide, to an endpoint, the results of the simulation of the plurality of electrical grid simulations.

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A method, comprising:

performing, by a GS service implemented by one or more computing devices of a provider network:
receiving, from a client, a request to implement a plurality of electrical grid simulations;
in response to the request to implement the plurality of electrical grid simulations:
determining, based on the request to implement the plurality of electrical grid simulations, an amount of compute capacity of a session to be used to implement the plurality of electrical grid simulations by the GS service of the provider network, wherein the session comprises a current amount of compute capacity provisioned to implement electrical grid simulations on behalf of the client;
implementing the plurality of electrical grid simulations using grid simulation solvers and the amount of compute capacity to generate results, wherein the amount of compute capacity comprises at least a portion of the current amount of compute capacity;
and
providing, to an endpoint, the results of the simulation of the plurality of electrical grid simulations.

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One or more non-transitory computer-accessible storage media storing program instructions that when executed on or across one or more processors of a provider network cause the one or more processors to implement a GS service to:

receive, from a client, a request to implement a plurality of electrical grid simulations;
in response to the request to implement the plurality of electrical grid simulations:
determine, based on the request to implement the plurality of electrical grid simulations, an amount of compute capacity of a session to be used to implement the plurality of electrical grid simulations by the GS service of the provider network, wherein the session comprises a current amount of compute capacity provisioned to implement electrical grid simulations on behalf of the client;
implement the plurality of electrical grid simulations using grid simulation solvers and the amount of compute capacity to generate results, wherein the amount of compute capacity comprises at least a portion of the current amount of compute capacity;
and
provide, to an endpoint, the results of the simulation of the plurality of electrical grid simulations.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.