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US 2018/0004868 A1Published application
Cloud-Based Reservoir Simulation Environment
AssigneeSchlumberger Technology Corporation
InventorsStuart Adam, Ian Ambler, Leon Verrall, Owen Brazell, Neil Brown, Miguel Meneses, Brian Spolnicki, Kevin Shaw, Dayal Gunasekera, Antonio Vieira, Jr., Arun Kumar Narayanan
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Abstract
Reservoir simulations may be executed in a high performance computing cloud cluster (530) provisioned within a cloud computing environment (450) and accessible by graphical pre- and/or post-processors (410) resident on a computer system (402) that is external to the cloud computing environment.
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A method of running a reservoir simulation, comprising:
- receiving, with a high performance computing cloud cluster provisioned within a cloud computing environment, a simulation job prepared by a graphical pre-processor resident on a computer system that is external to the cloud computing environment;
- executing the simulation job using a reservoir simulator resident on a plurality of compute nodes in the high performance computing cloud cluster to generate simulation results;
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- returning the generated simulation results to a graphical post-processor resident on the computer system that is external to the cloud computing environment.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- a high performance computing cloud cluster provisioned within a cloud computing environment, the high performance computing cloud cluster including a plurality of compute nodes including hardware resources from the cloud computing environment;
- a reservoir simulator resident on the plurality of compute nodes;
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- program code configured upon execution by at least one processing unit resident in the cloud computing environment to receive a simulation job prepared by a graphical pre-processor resident on a computer system that is external to the cloud computing environment, initiate execution of the simulation job by the reservoir simulator to generate simulation results, and return the generated simulation results to a graphical post-processor resident on the computer system that is external to the cloud computing environment.
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A program product, comprising:
- a computer readable medium;
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- program code stored on the computer readable medium and configured upon execution by at least one processing unit of a computer system that is external to a cloud computing environment, the program code including a graphical pre-processor and a graphical post-processor and configured to:
- directly connect to a high performance computing cloud cluster provisioned within the cloud computing environment, the high performance computing cloud cluster including a plurality of compute nodes and a reservoir simulator resident on the plurality of compute nodes;
- generate and submit a simulation job to the high performance computing cloud cluster to cause the high performance computing cloud cluster to initiate execution of the simulation job by the reservoir simulator to generate simulation results;
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- receive and display the generated simulation results.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.