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Despite Disruptions, Oil and Gas HPC Market Steadfast

September 20, 2021 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

The last several years have been challenging for the oil and gas industry on nearly all fronts. …

Code

ConocoPhillips Sparks Tooling For Seismic HPC, Cloud, AI/ML

March 4, 2021 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

Seismic processing and analysis at scale take scalable HPC resources but also need an analytics backend that can scale with massive datasets. …

HPC

High Performance Storage Sets Sail

September 9, 2019 Michael Feldman 0

While the natural habitat of HPC storage is supercomputing and enterprise datacenters, the growing popularity of edge computing means sometimes that hardware must live outside its comfort zone. …

AI

Oil and Gas Industry Gets GPU, Deep Learning Injection

January 29, 2018 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

Although oil and gas software giant, Baker Hughes, is not in the business of high performance computing, the software it creates for the world’s leading oil and gas companies requires supercomputing capabilities for some use cases and increasingly, these systems can serve double-duty for emerging deep learning workloads. …

Compute

Energy Giant Eni Starts Investing In Supercomputers Again

January 24, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Energy is not free, not even to energy companies, and so they are just as concerned with being efficient with their supercomputers as the most penny pinching hyperscaler or cloud builder where the computing is the product. …

Compute

HPC Optimizes Energy Exploration for Oil and Gas Startups

January 8, 2018 Peggy Bresnick 0

In its quest to meet the world’s ever-increasing demand for energy, the oil and gas industry has become one of the largest users—and leading innovators—of high performance computing. …

HPC

Exascale on the Far Horizon for Cash-Strapped Oil and Gas

June 23, 2017 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

All the compute power in the world is useless against code that cannot scale. …

Code

Inside Exxon’s Effort to Scale Homegrown Codes, Keep Architectural Pace

February 21, 2017 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

Many oil and gas exploration shops have invested many years and many more millions of dollars into homegrown codes, which is critical internally (competitiveness, specialization, etc.) …

AI

Refining Oil and Gas Discovery with Deep Learning

January 24, 2017 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 1

Over the last two years, we have highlighted deep learning use cases in enterprise areas including genomics, large-scale business analytics, and beyond, but there are still many market areas that are still building a profile for where such approaches fit into existing workflows. …

HPC

Exascale Capabilities Underpin Future of Energy Sector

September 28, 2016 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

Oil and natural resource discovery and production is an incredibly risky endeavor, with the cost of simply finding a new barrel of oil tripling over the last ten years. …

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