PNNL

Abstract

In the 50+ years since the first humans landed on the moon, computing has grown at breakneck speed. We are faced with another challenge that is just as daunting, and just as important to overcome—modernizing the North American electric power grid—and high-performance computing (HPC) systems with software that can take advantage of their special features will be an important element in rising to this challenge. This paper describes at a high level how software developed in the ExaSGD project addresses this “moonshot” goal by utilizing Exascale computing and a novel high performance solver software stack to help decarbonize grid operations in an environment of uncertain weather and climate.