HiGHS is pleased to announce that the National Energy System Operator (NESO) and the University of Edinburgh have signed a contract for a Network Innovation Allowance (NIA) funded project. The project will develop a new GPU-accelerated first order solver for extreme scale sparse linear programming (LP) problems. The solver will be written by Yanyu Zhou, Julian Hall and Ivet Galabova, with a planned release (as part of HiGHS) in early 2026.Julian says, "This exciting project will allow HiGHS to fully engage with GPU-accelerated first order methods for LP by incorporating its own developments and the best external work in this field".Learn more:GPU Accelerated Grid Optimisation | Energy Networks AssociationFollow the HiGHS team for updates:HiGHS | LinkedIn Tags Optimization and OR Staff success Publication date 22 Sep, 2025
