道達爾(Total)推超級電腦, 找油如神助 - 來說一些很冷的故事～～愈冷愈有勁

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道達爾(Total)推超級電腦, 找油如神助

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法國大石油公司道達爾(Total)今年初(2013)推出新型超級電腦，將能使他們探勘石油的速度比以往快15倍，也使這家公司在電腦運算能力排名躋進全球前十名。

名為「盤古大陸」（Pangea）的這台超級電腦，有助於總部位於巴黎的道達爾公司（Total）更精確判斷油井探鑽到石油的機率及石油蘊藏的規模。道達爾公司探勘部門資訊主管馬薩（Philippe Malzac）說，利用Pangea協助分析公司在安哥拉Kaombo計畫的地震數據僅需9天，之前的電腦需要花上4個半月。

道達爾新電腦運算能力也勝過競爭對手英國石油公司（BP）。道達爾的超級電腦能進行每秒2.3千兆次浮點運算(petaflop), 英國石油公司的超級電腦能進行每秒2.0千兆次浮點運算。馬薩說：「我們的競爭對手也在致力於研發這種演算系統，但我們在這方面搶得先機。」他拒絕透露採購新系統的價格，但表示，這系統未來4年使用經費將達6000萬歐元（7755萬美元）。

底下的鏈結是2012/11的世界排名(http://www.top500.org/list/2012/11/)
(還沒有Pangea哦!)

還有, Total的官網消息:

http://www.total.com/en/about-total/news/news-940500.html&idActu=2945Paris, March 21, 2013: Total is inaugurating tomorrow, Friday, March 22, 2013, the new high-performance computer of its Scientific and Technical Centre in Pau which now ranks the Group among the top ten international companies in terms of computing power. The event will take place in the presence of Lionel Beffre, Prefect of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, and Yves-Louis Darricarrère, Upstream President.

This investment is intended to gain in time and in precision for modelling the subsurface and simulating the behaviour of reservoirs.

“We are proud of this leap forward in our performance which positions us in the vanguard of high technology at international level. This supercomputer – 15 times more powerful than its predecessor – has been specifically designed to meet the main technical challenges facing our industry. Its intensive computing capacity constitutes a key competitive asset that is an integral part of the Group’s bold exploration strategy,” says Yves-Louis Darricarrère.

The supercomputer, which represents an investment of €60 million over four years, was commissioned on 17 January for the Seismic Imagery and Interpretation department of Total’s Centre for hydrocarbon research. It will be used as a tool to assist decision-making in the exploration of complex geological areas and to increase the efficiency of hydrocarbon production in compliance with the safety standards and with respect for the environment.

Designed by SGI (Silicon Graphics International), the Pangea supercomputer has a computing capacity of 2.3 Pflops¹ . Its unique computing architecture is based on over 110,000 calculation cores, 7 Pb² storage capacity and an innovative cooling system whose circuit is integrated with the processors. Requiring 2.8 MW of electric power, the heat generated by this supercomputer is recovered, making it possible to heat the totality of the Scientific and Technical Centre. Virtual visit to Pangea

The Group plans to double the power of its computer by 2015.

¹ A petaflop is equal to a million billion operations per second; the computing capacity of Pangea is equivalent to that of 27,000 office computers altogether.
² A petabyte is equal to a million billion bytes; the storage capacity of Pangea is the equivalent of 1.75 million DVDs.

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The machine, called Pangea, will allow Total to more precisely gauge the potential of exploration wells and the size of its oil reserves.

Philippe Malzac, IT director at Total's Exploration division, told Reuters that Pangea helped analyse seismic data from the company's Kaombo project in Angola in just nine days.

That is up from four and a half months required by Total's previous computer.

The new supercomputer makes Total one of the world's most powerful companies on the planet in terms of computing power. Pangea, rated at 2.3 petaflops, is faster than UK giant BP's 2-petaflop facility under construction in Houston.

One petaflop is equal to a million billion operations per second. The new computer has the power equivalent to that of 27,000 office computers, Total said in a statement.

"Our competitors are also working on these kind of algorithms, but we think this is giving us a head start," Malzac told Reuters.

He did not say how much Pangea cost to build. A statement from Total said the company would spend €60 million ($77.55 million) to run the computer over the next four years.

Pangea is 15 times more powerful than Total's previous Rostand computer, which the company has used since 2008.

The supercomputer, built by California-based Silicon Graphics International, will be stored at Total's research centre in the city of Pau in south-west French.

Pangea, which has similar capacity to supercomputers used by the US Air Force, is the ninth most powerful computer in the world, according to the most recent rating by TOP500, which issues two rankings a year of the world's fastest supercomputers.

Total said it plans to double the power of Pangea by 2015.

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