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Thursday, October 24, 2013
The Center for High-Performance Computing will keep BP at the forefront of seismic imaging technology, enhancing capabilities in exploration, reservoir management.
BP opened a new facility in Houston to house the world’s largest supercomputer for commercial research. The Center for High-Performance Computing is meant to highlight the company’s commitment to leading-edge technology in support of its core oil and gas business around the globe.
The Center for High-Performance Computing, located at BP’s US headquarters in Houston, will serve as a worldwide hub for processing and managing huge amounts of geophysical data from across BP’s portfolio and be a key tool in helping scientists to “see” more clearly what lies beneath the earth’s surface.
“BP’s investment in this new supercomputing center not only highlights the increasingly high-tech nature of today’s global oil and gas industry, it underscores our company’s long-held belief in the vital role technology plays – and will continue to play – in solving the world’s biggest energy challenges,” said Jackie Mutschler, BP’s Head of Upstream Technology.
BP’s new Center for High-Performance Computing is housed in a three-story, 110,000 sq foot building at the company’s Westlake campus. The building replaces BP’s previous supercomputing complex, which had been located within an office tower at the campus.
The previous supercomputing facility was the world’s first commercial research center to achieve a petaflop of processing speed – or one thousand trillion calculations per second. But it had reached maximum power and cooling capacity, limiting options for growth.
BP worked with HP and Intel to grow its computing power to over 2.2 petaflops, almost doubling its capability this year. It will also boast total memory of 1000 terabytes and disk space of 23.5 petabytes – the equivalent of over 40,000 average laptop computers.
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