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PSR Achieves more than 5x Speedup on a 185M Variable Problem Using Multi-GPU PDLP with NVIDIA cuOpt

Rafael Benchimol, Raphael Sampaio, and Guilherme BodinOct 7, 2026 / 7 min read

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Sep 16, 2026

Solar-Hydro Synergy: Assessing the Technical Limit of Floating Solar in Brazil

Brazil's reservoirs could hold 3,100 GW of floating solar. An hourly optimization over nine years of real hydro and radiation data finds 25 GW that pays at historical spot prices.

Innovation9 min read

Aug 30, 2026

Multiple Masters: A Faster Decomposition for Stochastic Expansion

On a Brazilian expansion model with 176 candidate projects, accelerated Benders with multiple masters converges in 11 iterations where multi-cut Benders needs 465.

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Aug 26, 2026

What actually is a qubit?

Commonly misinterpreted, a qubit is the fundamental unit of information in quantum computing.

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Jul 22, 2026

QUBO.jl: a compiler for optimization hardware

How PSR is bridging optimization and quantum computing.