Parallelization of a commercial streamline simulator and performance on practical models

SPE Reservoir Simulation Symposium Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2009, Pages 36-45

  Batycky, R P ^a   Forster M ^b   Thiele, M R ^a   Stuben K ^b  

^a Streamsin Technologies

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR ALGORITHMS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SCAI   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUAL CORE; DUAL POROSITY MODEL; MATRIX; MEMORY BANDWIDTHS; MIDDLE EAST; OIL/WATER; OPTERON; PARALLEL EXECUTIONS; PARALLEL SIMULATOR; PARALLELIZATIONS; PRACTICAL MODEL; PROGRAMMING MODELS; REAL TIME; RUNTIME CODE; RUNTIMES; SERIAL CODES; SERIAL EXECUTION; SPEED-UP FACTORS; STREAMLINE SIMULATION; TEST MACHINE;

PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; SOLAR RADIATION;

SIMULATORS;

EID: 70450203367     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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