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Re:HP Updates Z8 Workstations: Up to 56 Cores, 3 TB RAM, 9 P... by the_real_sparky on Saturday September 16, 2017 @11:11PM (#15268064)
Electric grid dynamic/transient event (disturbance) simulations. It's essentially modeling the response of electromechanical equipment (generators and large loads), large solid state devices (utility scale renewables and fast-switching reactive devices), lumped load models, and protective devices to events on the electric system. The simulations run in ~1ms timesteps over 10-30 seconds of real world time (which can take 4-20 minutes of CPU time). Each event is independent and they parallelize pretty much linearly. Python multiprocessing is the lifeblood of this work.

Edit: I guess I should be clear and say that the simulations themselves are running on a commercial software package (Fortran based) and I'm simply setting them up, spinning them off, and then processing all of the resulting data in Python.

Re:HP Updates Z8 Workstations: Up to 56 Cores, 3 TB RAM, 9 P... by madengr on Sunday September 17, 2017 @12:12AM (#15268188)
Neat. I do a lot of RF simulations. Even though it's 60 Hz vs 60 GHz, I suppose a massive electrical grid has the same distributed effects that can cause standing waves and stability issues.