MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY, NEW AWARD GRID OPTIMIZATION (GO) COMPETITION CHALLENGE 3 PROJECT TITLE: INTELLIGENT PARTITIONING BASED FULLY PARALLEL AC SECURITY-CONSTRAINED OPTIMAL POWER FLOW (PSCOPF) MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY SUBMITTED A GRANT PROPOSAL FOR GO COMPETITION (DE-FOA-0002690, CHALLENGE 3), FOR A PROJECT TITLED, “INTELLIGENT PARTITIONING BASED FULLY PARALLEL AC SECURITY-CONSTRAINED OPTIMAL POWER FLOW (PSCOPF)” (CONTROL# 2690-1518) TO DEVELOP A NOVEL SOFTWARE TO PROVIDE FAST AND OPTIMAL SOLUTION TECHNIQUES FOR THE LARGE-SCALE, MIXED-INTEGER, NONLINEAR, NON-CONVEX, AND MULTI-PERIOD AC SECURITY-CONSTRAINED OPTIMAL POWER FLOW (SCOPF) PROBLEM WITH UNIT COMMITMENT AND LINE SWITCHING, WHICH COULD BE EFFECTIVELY AND EFFICIENTLY SOLVED ON PARALLEL COMPUTING PLATFORMS.