... heterogeneity in reservoirs. High performance computations are essential to obtain solutions of these models in a reasonable time. Introduction modeling & simulation platform communication reservoir simulation scalability computing platform computation hayder upstream oil & gas...

... of the hydrodynamic modeling results for this type of reservoirs. Using a high-resolution hydrodynamic simulator and a high-performance cluster system, multivariate simulations were performed to evaluate the effect of various parameters and options on the results of numerical simulations. The simulations were...

... Abstract Simulation of high resolution reservoir models is useful to gain insight into oil and gas reservoirs. Nowadays, massive comprehensive reservoir simulation models can be built with detailed geological and well log data. These models require a very large high performance computing (HPC...

... Reservoir simulation is (mostly) memory bandwidth limited, i.e., performance is essentially governed by how fast data moves from memory to the arithmetic units rather than how fast these can perform calculations. For example, a good quality full-GPU simulator running on a single high end server...

..., the simplification of the models by the user. We present here some recent insights of High Performance Computing (HPC) prototyping in an In-House Research Reservoir Simulator (IHRRS). Firstly, we explain how we build a cache-efficient Jacobian matrix in the case of a general multi-phase multi-component simulator...

... because it will help the organisation learn how to excel in the HPC discipline over time. Conclusion High Performance Cloud Computing environments provide an opportunity to leverage technology enhancements. While it is technically possible to run reservoir simulations in the cloud, there are still...

... Abstract Large scale reservoir simulation is essential to understand various flow processes inside the reservoir. With the advent of high performance computing (HPC), it is now possible to simulate models larger than even one billion cells. Because of its cost effectiveness, Linux clusters...

...-6 December 2005 , Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia . 23. M Ehtesham Hayder and Majdi Baddourah , Saudi Aramco , Challenges in High Performance Computing for Reservoir Simulation , SPE 152414-MS, SPE Europec/EAGE Annual Conference , 4-7 June 2012 , Copenhagen, Denmark . 24...

... has been a valuable tool for reservoir simulations of the giant fields managed by Saudi Aramco; the world leader in high performance reservoir simulation studies utilizing state-of-the-art computer facilities. Three of its current computing clusters used for reservoir simulations are in the list...

... Abstract The quest for efficient and scalable parallel reservoir simulators has been evolving with the advancement of high performance computing architectures. Among the various challenges of efficiency and scalability, load imbalance is a major obstacle that has not been fully addressed...

...-scale models on high-performance computers; see [ 5 ] and reference therein for details. For example, reservoir engineers are building high-resolution reservoir models [ 6 , 7 ], on which numerous simulation runs are performed for the purpose of history matching and model validation. According...

... to realize large-scale models on high-performance computers. Large-scale reservoir simulations focus on detailed reservoir characterization, accurate flow description, efficient nonlinear and linear solvers, and parallel implementation. The reservoir simulation community has recognized the importance...

... , Chevron , Next Generation Parallel Computing for Large-Scale Reservoir Simulation , SPE 97358-MS , SPE International Improved Oil Recovery Conference in Asia Pacific , 5-6 December 2005 , Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia . 16. M EhteshamHayder and MajdiBaddourah, Saudi Aramco , Challenges in High...

... evolving High-Performance-Computing (HPC) technologies offer opportunities to reduce cost without compromising fidelity. This work presents a novel in-house massively parallel full-physics reservoir simulator running on the emerging graphics processing unit (GPU) architecture. Almost all the simulation...

... with demonstrated high performance on a number of vector 34·1 computers 1 and current state-of-the-art scalar microcomputers. 2 Reservoir simulations were conducted using the two computer syscems. Both systems use RISC (Reduced Instruction Sec Computer) design concepts. Although both the i860 and RS/6000 are based...

... was simulated using our high-performance cluster computer. We also discuss the challenges of the simulation workflow in terms of pre-post Processing and IT environment. Introduction Reservoir rocks have a highly complex disorderly structure over a wide range of length scales. The heterogeneities...

... parallellism (roughly up to 10 2 CPU) aims at the price/performance ratio while MPP with high parallelism focuses on high scalability. High Performance Computing (HPC) using these relatively low-priced parallel computers has been popularized for multipurpose computers such as high and network servers...

... and OpenMP on Multi-core Parallel Systems Parallel Computing . 2011 Feb. 15. M Ehtesham Hayder and Majdi Baddourah , Saudi Aramco , Challenges in High Performance Computing for Reservoir Simulation, SPE 152414-MS , SPE Europec/EAGE Annual Conference , 4-7 June 2012 , Copenhagen...