Innovation

Emerging technologies and applied research. We also feature PSR's internal projects, ranging from early experiments to consolidated results.

Page 1 of 1 · 5 posts · Latest Oct 7, 2026

Rows of high-voltage transmission towers silhouetted against a sunset sky that shifts from deep violet overhead to orange at the horizon, their lines receding toward a substation at the right

Oct 7, 20267 min read

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

Rafael Benchimol, Raphael Sampaio, and Guilherme Bodin

Rows of floating photovoltaic panels moored on the surface of a reservoir

Sep 16, 20269 min read

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.

Rafael Benchimol and Rafael Kelman

A precision compass casting intersecting geometric shadows across paper

Aug 30, 202612 min read

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.

Rafael Benchimol

Aug 26, 202615 min read

What actually is a qubit?

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

Pedro Ripper

Jul 22, 202612 min read

QUBO.jl: a compiler for optimization hardware

How PSR is bridging optimization and quantum computing.

Pedro Ripper