Cell/B.E. technology solutions for upstream petroleum

Oil companies are engaged in exploration in increasingly challenging locations, and modern technology is generating far greater volumes of data for analysis. This means organizations need compute power that can yield simulation results faster and more accurately. With extraordinary double-precision performance the IBM® BladeCenter® QS22 can enable seismic workloads to be completed in a fraction of the time required by competing processor technologies and can also be used to enable new, more-precise imaging algorithms, improving the image reliability and the probability of finding oil and gas.

Based on an enhanced version of the Cell Broadband Engine™ Architecture, the BladeCenter QS22, with the processing power of the new IBM PowerXCell™ 8i chip, and available 32 GB memory offers five times the double precision peak performance of the previous generation blade. This helps companies accelerate double-precision calculations and speed simulation far faster than traditional processors.

Resources

	IBM and Simudyne: Speeding up petroleum discovery and production through simulation (910KB)
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