High-Performance Reservoir Simulations on Modern CPU-GPU Computational Platforms

Abstract

With growing complexity and grid resolution of the numerical reservoir models, computational performance of the simulators becomes essential for field development planning. To achieve optimal performance reservoir modeling software must be aligned with the modern trends
in high-performance computing and support the new architectural hardware features that have become available over the last decade. A combination of several factors, such as more economical parallel computer platforms available on the hardware market and software that efficiently utilizes it to provide optimal parallel performance helps to reduce the computation time of the reservoir models significantly. Thus, we can get rid of the perennial problem with lack of time and resources to run required number of cases. That, in turn, makes the decision about field development more reliable and balanced.