SEG Petroleum Industry Workshop

"HPC in Oil and Gas Technical Directions and Operational Issues"

Publication Date	January 2009
Publisher	IDC
Product Type	Report
Pages	19
ISBN Number	not applicable
Product Code	IDC06621

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Summary

This IDC update discusses the last high-performance computing (HPC) workshop held in conjunction with the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) conference that took place in Las Vegas, Nevada, on November 14, 2008, and was entitled

"HPC in Oil and Gas: Technical Directions and Operational Issues." The meeting facilitator was Keith Gray from BP. The SEG HPC workshops, held three times a year, explore precompetitive technology trends and operational requirements in HPC of interest to the worldwide oil and gas industry. The meetings include a combination of vendor talks in which they present their existing capabilities and plans for addressing industry requirements and topical panel discussions among industry and vendor experts and the attendees.

Content

In This Update
- Friday, November 14
  - Introduction
  - Keith Gray, BP
    - Programmer Productivity
  - Steve Briggs, Headwave: "Acceleration of Prestack Visualization and Attribute Extraction: GPUs Uncover Hidden Meaning in Seismic Surveys"
  - Steve Wallach, Convey Computer: "Processor Architectures: Past, Present, and Future"
    - The Convey Hybrid-Core Computer
  - Panel Discussion: "Converts and Skeptics Discuss Accelerated Computing"
    - Jim Ballew, Appro: "Balanced Performance"
    - Pradeep Dubey, Intel
    - David Judsen, Western Geco
    - Kevin McGrath, AMD
    - Bill Volz, Chevron
    - General Panel Discussion
  - William Deigaard, Rice University: "Building a New Datacenter"
    - Articulating the Need for a New Datacenter
      - Design and Construction
      - Lessons Learned
  - Brian Kucic, R Systems NA: "Learnings from the NCSA and R Systems Data Centers"
    - Lessons Learned
  - Panel Discussion: "Best Practices and Future Requirements for HPC Datacenters"
    - Giovanni Coglitore and Conor Malone, Rackable Systems: "Building Efficient Datacenters"
    - Ty Schmitt, Dell
    - Kenneth Wolverton, CyrusOne
    - General Panel Discussion
  - Cindy Crooks, BP: Best Practices in Systems Administration for Large Clusters, "High-Performance Computing at BP: Using Technology to Find Oil and Gas"
  - Kim Andrews: "HPC at Rice University"
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