DOE Researchers Run Power Grid Optimization Software on Exascale Supercomputer

A team of Department of Energy researchers has used a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory-developed software on Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Frontier supercomputer to develop power grid-control strategies under weather-related emergency scenarios. As part of the DOE Exascale Computing Project’s ExaSGD initiative, the researchers ran the HiOp open-source grid optimization solver on Frontier nodes to simulate over 100,000 possible grid failures and weather scenarios. The team includes representatives from LLNL, ORNL, National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, LLNL said.