Process simulators on supercomputers

Conference · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:5503324

Haley, J C; Sarma, P V.L.N. ^[1]

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1. E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co., Engg. Dept., Newark, DE (US)

Rigorous simulation of chemical processes involves solving very large sets of algebraic equations. Simulations performed on mainframe computers like the VAX are often compute bound causing problems or delays in day-to-day process modeling. One solution to this problem is to adapt flowsheet simulators to run on supercomputers like the Cray X-MP. Supercomputers provide both raw speedup and vector processing. This study compares running two industrial flowsheet simulators, PROCESS (from SimSci) and CPES (Du Pont in-house) on a VAX 8800 to running them on a Cray X-MP and used 32 real world problems to gather benchmark statistics from both machines. Details of the study are presented.

• OSTI ID: 5503324
• Report Number(s): CONF-881143-
• Resource Relation: Conference: American Institute of Chemical Engineers annual meeting, Washington, DC (USA), 27 Nov - 2 Dec 1988; Other Information: Technical Paper 175A
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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37 INORGANIC
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PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
CHEMICAL INDUSTRY
SUPERCOMPUTERS
PERFORMANCE
BENCHMARKS
COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS
COMPUTER CALCULATIONS
CRAY COMPUTERS
DEC COMPUTERS
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