GridSpice: A distributed simulation platform for the smart grid

GridSpice is a simulation framework for the smart grid that integrates existing electric power point tools. The framework provides computational scale and modeling capability to represent diverse scenarios in large interconnected grid systems. Currently, GridSpice integrates a transmission and economic dispatch package based on MatPOWER and the distribution system simulator Gridlab-D. GridSpice provides computational scale by parallelizing large simulation jobs across many virtual machines using Amazon Web Services. GridSpice provides three primary mechanisms for setting up simulations: a Python library, a browser-based user interface, and a Representational State Transfer (REST) API, which allows users to interface with existing data management systems or post-processing tools. GridSpice is available in open-source under the BSD license.