Reservoir simulation on a hypercube

Journal Article · Thu Nov 01 04:00:00 EST 1990 · SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers) Reservoir Engineering; (USA)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2118/19804-PA· OSTI ID:6040200

Wheeler, J A; Smith, R A ^[1]

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1. Exxon Production Research Co. (US)

The rapid evolution of parallel computers with distributed memory promises to reduce computer hardware costs by an order of magnitude. To examine the extent to which this promise can be realized in practice, the authors have coded and tested a 3D parallel implicit reservoir simulator for an Intel iPSC/2 hypercube with 16 vector processors. The simulator is based on an oil/water model and does not account for a gas phase. Test results were favorable. A correlation of computation of computation efficiency with problem size and the number of processors demonstrates that up to 96% of the available CPU time on the hypercube can be used. Such high efficiencies were achieved by developing special algorithms well suited for multiple processors and distributed memory.

• OSTI ID: 6040200
• Journal Information: SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers) Reservoir Engineering; (USA), Journal Name: SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers) Reservoir Engineering; (USA) Vol. 5:4; ISSN SREEE; ISSN 0885-9248
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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