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The target problems of HPC involve large scale computations that are beyond the capabilities of single laptop PCs or desktop computers
The MORPHEMIC project successfully passed the mid-term evaluation by European Commission in the autumn of 2021 demonstrating a real application running on the first release of the software platform. This is a major recognition given the Covid-19 restrictions in effect during the first half of the project. The SIRIUS researchers have successfully published four conference publications in 2021 related to MORPHEMIC, and work is ongoing on a further 6 publications expected for 2022. Work to integrate the HPC cluster from NumaScale into the NREC computing facilities allowing it to be used transparently by MELODIC and MORPHEMIC managed HPC applications started in 2020 will hopefully be completed early in 2022. The MORPHEMIC platform will be demonstrated at the SIRIUS General Assembly in the spring of 2022, and hopefully this will stimulate the industrial partners to test and evaluate advanced Cross-Cloud application management as it can provide significant performance improvements and cost savings for applications with variable resource need over longer execution times.
HPC support for reservoir simulation
This research topic aims to enable faster and more realistic reservoir simulations, which are the cornerstone in the workflow of oil reservoir management, thereby of vital importance to the entire oil and gas sector. The complexity and uncertainty of the subsurface geological properties require large-scale numerical computations that can only be treated with the technique of HPC. Besides simulating oil reservoirs, the same technique and software are also applicable to planning geological CO2 storage, which is becoming increasingly more important for reducing man- made climate changes. Specifically, the researchers in this topic investigate how to improve the various algorithmic and implemental aspects of such computations, so that reservoir simulations can more efficiently use modern computing hardware.
During 2021, SIRIUS researchers continued to collaborate actively with Equinor researchers in enhancing the perfor- mance and capabilities of the reservoir flow simulator inside the Open Porous Media10 (OPM) framework. Several new numerical components were implemented and incorporated into the simulator, which has led to faster computing speed. Also, research was carried out to quantitively characterize the impact of these new components. With respect to the
[1] https:/h2020.melodic.cloud/ and https:/melodic.cloud/
[2] https:/gitlab.ow2.org/melodic
[3] https:/aws.amazon.com/
[4] https:/cloud.google.com/
[5] https:/azure.microsoft.com/en-us/
[6] https:/www.openstack.org/
[7] https:/www.nrec.no/
[8] https:/www.tensorflow.org/
[9] https:/www.morphemic.cloud/
[10] https:/opm-project.org
[11] https:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVM_Express
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