In the petroleum industry, the drive to increase reserves drives everything. Key to success is the ability to formulate, run and analyze increasingly complex computationally intensive simulations. Companies need to locate and optimize hydrocarbon reserves faster by making better decisions with lower risks.

The petroleum industry is ideally positioned to take advantage of an On-Demand computing model. To support processes such as seismic interpretation and reservoir modeling, petroleum companies often deploy high performance computing (HPC) infrastructures. HPC capability and availability can help companies perform petroleum exploration, appraisal and production. However, because fluctuating oil prices affect project-and asset-based activity in this industry, building HPC capacity to meet peak demand has not been an economical option.

CERT’s Blue Gene offerings for high performance computing On-Demand helps petroleum companies meet peak demands for HPC capacity, while providing a better way to manage capital and operating costs. Petroleum companies can achieve attractive price performance for computing-intensive applications and processing of numerous large-data files thereby analyzing prospects faster by improving accuracy & finding rates and reducing finding costs.

CERT’s Blue Gene offers applications for the Oil & Gas sector and the details can be found in the
‘Oil & Gas Applications’ section.