Hardware and software advances, including Windows® Compute Cluster Server (CCS) 2003, are helping geoscientists make better decisions regarding prospect generation, speeding the time to first oil.
Empowering geoscientists with more desk-side high-performance computing power could increase oil and gas production overall, reports The Microsoft High- Performance Computing Oil and Gas Industry Survey 2007, sponsored by Microsoft and conducted by Houston-based Gelb Consulting Group Inc.
According to the online survey:
- Eighty-one percent say more ready access to HPC capability could increase oil and gas production.
- Sixty-one percent report that having the capability to run additional tasks and iterations will reduce project risk.
- Fifty-six percent prefer to schedule their own jobs to a technical computing or HPC cluster rather than rely on a cluster administrator to manage the job queue.
Experts say that the new HPC technology won’t replace today’s supercomputers, but can go a long way toward making technical computing more available at a lower cost.
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