Accelerating reservoir simulation with GPUs.
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Accelerating reservoir simulation with GPUs.
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As large and complex computational problems become more and more common across numerous industry segments, the need of computation by HPC (High Performance Computing) industry increases. However, traditional CPU technology is no longer capable of scaling in performance sufficiently to address this demand.
The parallel processing capability of the GPU allows it to divide complex computing tasks into thousands of smaller tasks that can be run concurrently. This enables computational scientists and researchers to address some of the world’s most challenging computational problems up to several times faster; and reservoir simulation could be one of those challenges.
What is the purpose of Reservoir Simulation?
Reservoir simulation models are used by oil and gas companies in the development of new fields. Also, models are used in developed fields where production forecasts are needed to help make right investment decisions. Reservoir Simulation has two main goals: Determine best locations and schedules for wells to optimize production and predict future production rate (from a reservoir model).
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