A smooth transition from serial to parallel processing in the industrial petroleum system modeling package PetroMod

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1473-1479

  Bücker, H Martin ^a   Kauerauf, Armin I ^b   Rasch, Arno ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Integrated Exploration Systems (IES)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo; OpenMP; Parallel computing; Petroleum system modeling; Shared memory parallelization

Indexed keywords

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; FOSSIL FUELS; OFFSHORE PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS;

OIL AND GAS; PARALLEL PROGRAMS; PARALLELIZING; PERFORMANCE RESULTS; PETROLEUM SYSTEMS; SERIAL TO PARALLEL (S/P); SHARED MEMORIES; SMOOTH TRANSITION (STR);

PETROLEUM REFINERIES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PARALLEL COMPUTING; PETROLEUM;

EID: 48749094203     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2008.01.011     Document Type: Article

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