GridPACK is an open-source high-performance (HPC) package for simulation of large-scale electrical grids. Powered by distributed (parallel) computing and high-performance numerical solvers, GridPACK offers several applications forfast simulation of electrical transmission systems. GridPACK includes a number of prebuilt applications that can be directly used. The most commonly used and well-developed are:
Other applications under development or not full featured are
In addition, GridPACK is also a framework to simplify the development of new applications on HPC platforms. To ease the development, GridPACK offers several building blocks such as setting up and distributing (partitioning) power grid networks, support for custom components on buses and branches, converting the network models to the corresponding algebraic equations, parallel routines for manipulating and solving large algebraic systems, and input and output modules as well as basic profiling and error management. GridPACK is written in C++ with python wrappers available.
See the instructions for installing GridPACK, prerequisite software, and installation notes for different platforms.
See User manual for a deep dive on GridPACK internals and/or refer to the tutorials for more info.