Oil and Gas HPC Workshop

Oil & Gas HPC Workshop Program Agenda
Thursday, March 04, 2010
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8:00	Registration and Breakfast

8:30	Introduction Keith Gray, BP & Jan Odegard, Rice University

8:40	Key Note: The Value of Seismic Imaging and the Contributions of HPC Peter Carragher, BP

9:10	Developing A Curriculum to Support High Performance Computing Jay Boisseau, Texas Advanced Computing Center

9:35	Who Will Write the Software Dave Hale, Colorado School of Mines

10:00	Break

10:15	Quo Vadis, Oilfield? Populo Fidemu – in technology we excel! André B. Erlich, Schlumberger Limited

10:45	Panel Discussion: Education and Training Requirements for HPC in Oil and Gas Peter Carragher, Jay Boisseau, Dave Hale, Andre Erlich, Scott Lathrop Moderators: Bill Symes, Rice & Keith Gray, BP

11:15	2009 in Review: Breakthroughs and Trends Andy Bechtolsheim, Arista

12:00	Lunch

1:00	Large, Dynamic, and Pay as you Go: HPC on the Cloud David Powers, Eli Lilly & Jason Stowe, CycleComputing

1:30	Intel 48 core research chip and the future of many core processors Tim Mattson, Intel

2:00	Optimizing Reverse Time Migration on CPUs, GPGPUs and FPGAs Bob Clapp & Haohuan Fu, Stanford & Olav Lindtjorn, Schlumberger

2:30	Break

3:00	Multi-core evaluation and performance analysis of the ECLIPSE and INTERSECT Reservoir simulation codes Owen Brazell, Steve Messenger & Najib Abusalbi, Schlumberger & Paul Fjerstad, Chevron

3:30	Panel Discussion:HPC - The Next 5 Years Andy Bechtolsheim, David Powers, Tim Mattson, Bob Clapp, Owen Brazell, Paulius Micikevicius (position), William C. Brantley, Ph.D. (position) Moderators: David Judson, WesternGeco & Scott Morton, HESS	Brantley Micikevicius

4:15	Networking and Refreshments

5:15	Close

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