Enabling interactive and collaborative oil reservoir simulations on the Grid

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1387-1414

  Parashar, Manish ^a   Muralidhar, Rajeev ^a   Lee, Wonsuck ^b   Arnold, Dorian ^c   Dongarra, Jack ^d   Wheeler, Mary ^e  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin   (United States)

^d University of Tennessee   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Discover; Grid based computational collaboratory; Interactive monitoring and steering; IPARS; NetSolve; Oil reservoir simulation

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DISCOVER; GRID BASED COMPUTATIONAL COLLABORATORY; INTERACTIVE MONITORING AND STEERING; IPARS; NETSOLVE; OIL RESERVOIR SIMULATION;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EID: 25144517733     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.899     Document Type: Article

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