Running Snails

The RunningSnails team from the Laboratory for Energy Conversion (LEC) at ETH Zurich has been developing an in-house simulation framework, termed “EnerPol”, to simulate energy (that is, electricity, gas, and heat), transportation and urban infrastructures. The EnerPol framework is comprised of: big data; models; scenarios; and aggregation tools. The goal at the EuroHack17 was to enable the simulation of the mobility activities of the whole European population, 743.1 million (in 2015), but first focussing on Switzerland, population of 8.2 million (in 2015), for which they have developed and validated a database of the daily activities – primary activity, leisure activities, needs activities, etc. – of all individual agents in the population, with hourly resolution, and have developed a database of the transportation and buildings infrastructure.

The EuroHack17 objective was to utilize a GPU-enabled graph library to calculate optimal paths. They considered both Gunrock and NVgraph libraries.

Final presentation