CRPC Technologies Showcased in High-End Application |
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CRPC researchers at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UTK), Syracuse University,
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), and the University of Texas at Austin (UT) are
collaborating on a project that will demonstrate the use of CRPC technology in a high-end
computational application. The CRPC Tool Showcase project uses various high-performance
computers across national networks, including an ImmersaDesk visualization front end at UT,
for a reservoir simulation application.
The application is Implicit Parallel Accurate Reservoir Simulation (IPARS), developed by Mary Wheeler of UT's Center for Subsurface Modeling. IPARS is a simulator framework for developing parallel models of subsurface flow and transport through porous media. It was developed to serve as a testbed for multiphase flow models, numerical discretizations, solvers, and upscaling. IPARS currently can simulate single-phase (water only), two-phase (water and oil), or three-phase (water, oil, and gas) flow through a multi-block 3D porous medium. It can be applied to model water table decline caused by overproduction near urban areas, or enhanced oil and gas recovery in industrial applications. IPARS will be driven in a network-based problem-solving environment (PSE). The Tool Showcase demonstration will integrate CRPC-developed tools that include NetSolve (UTK), Webflow (Syracuse University and Ohio Supercomputing Center), and Globus (Argonne National Laboratory). The graphical user interface (GUI) and the visualization will both be Web-based. The result will be a powerful PSE that will enable the scientists to run the IPARS application remotely on machines across the national network, without requiring local computing power or in-depth knowledge of the actual problem. For more information about IPARS, see www.ticam.utexas.edu/CSM/ACTI/ipars.html |
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