Introduction

The GridWrx Lab is a fully functional research laboratory housed in the FREEDM Center on the Centennials Campus.  This campus is part of a five-campus system known as a “technopolis,” consisting of multidisciplinary RD neighborhoods with university, corporate, and government facilities intertwined.  On this research-oriented campus, over 1,800 corporate and government employees work alongside more than1,000 NCSU faculty, staff, postdocs, and students to conduct cutting-edge, multidisciplinary research.  The lab is equipped with real-time simulation platforms, high-performance desktop computers for data processing, and real-time simulation platforms (2 4-core OPAL-RT rack).  

Youtube channels

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PARS Platform

For all software developed in the GridWrx Lab for Modeling Power Grid Operation: https://sites.google.com/a/ncsu.edu/ninglu/gridwrx-lab-1/gridwrx-tools

Computing Power 

At NC State, significant investments have been made that facilitate the emergent computational community. Faculty, staff, and students at NCSU have access to a wide array of state-of-the-art data analytics and optimization packages (e.g., Gurobi, GAMS, CPLEX, SAS, R, LINGO), programming languages (e.g., Python, JAVA, Matlab), and transportation-related programs (e.g., Synchro/ SimTraffic, Paramics, VISSIM, Trans-modeler, TransCAD, AIMSUN, FREEVAL, aaSIDRA, HCS+, HiCAP, Tpsim, Transyt-7F, and TSIS 5.1,DynusT and DTALite). Additionally, NCSU offers access to the full ESRI suite of GIS software products. NCSU’s high-performance computing (HPC) operations provide NCSU students and faculty with entry-and medium-level high-performance research and education computing facilities as well as consulting sup-port. The service is complementary and joint with the NCSU Grid operations that build on the NC BioGrid project. Facilities include a 1000 processor IBM Blade Center, 24+ TB of storage, an IBM p575 cluster, and several specialized computational clusters. 

HPC resources at NC State

• 1. Henry2 Linux cluster: Henry2 is an Intel Xeon based Linux cluster.  The compute nodes contain a com-bination of several generations of Intel Xeon processors primarily in dual-socket blade servers.  A number of large memory compute nodes and a number of nodes with attached GPUs are integrated into Henry2.

  2. Virtual Computing Lab (VCL): NCSU  hosts  large  Windows  VMs  on  demand  that  allows  reserving  a computer with a desired set of applications and remotely access it over the Internet.   The service is powered by Apache Software Foundation’s VCL software.  It provides various applications (e.g.,Matlab, Maple, SAS, Solidworks) in Linux, Solaris and numerous Windows environments. 

  3. EOS/Unity: The College of Engineering and NCSU maintain a state-of-the-art general-purpose academic computing environment known as EOS/Unity, a large-scale distributed system that consists of literally thousands of Unix and Windows-based workstations and servers all over campus.  EOS/Unity uses a1

  4. robust, centrally managed storage and application system that features a number of software packages and  tools,  including  simulation  and  analysis  software  and  mathematical  software.   A  professional support group that provides consultation and basic system and software services operates the academic computing environment.