Total’s Pangea III Supercomputer Ranked First in Industry Worldwide
June 18 2019 - 2:30AM
Business Wire
Regulatory News:
Total (Paris:FP) (LSE:TTA) (NYSE:TOT) has brought on line its
new Pangea III supercomputer, multiplying the Group’s computing
power by almost 5 to 31.7 petaflops1 (equivalent to 170,000 laptops
combined) and tripling its storage capacity to 76 petabytes2
(equivalent to about 50 million HD movies).
Pangea III’s capacity adds to its predecessors (Pangea I and II)
and is now ranked the number 1 most powerful supercomputer in the
industry, and the 11th most powerful computer globally, public or
private (TOP500 ranking).
“Pangea III’s additional computing power enhances Total’s
operational excellence. It enables Total to reduce geological risks
in exploration and development, accelerate project maturation and
delivery, and increases the value of our assets through optimized
field operations, with all this at a lower cost,” stated Arnaud
Breuillac, President Total Exploration & Production.
Developed by IBM, the new high performance computer also
enhances energy efficiency, dividing the power consumption per
petaflop by 11 (1.5 MW for Pangea III versus 4.5 MW for Pangea I
and II).
Pangea III has varied applications, particularly in three
different fields:
- Exploration and development seismic
imaging:
New algorithms can process huge amounts of data more accurately,
at higher resolution and help to more reliably locate hydrocarbons
below ground. This is especially useful in complex geologic
environments with resources trapped under salt, such as in Brazil,
the Gulf of Mexico, Angola and the Eastern Mediterranean.
- Development and production
models
Increased computing power allows us to use innovative reservoir
simulation methods that, for example, integrate more efficiently a
field’s production history, to generate more reliable predictive
production models, much faster than we used to.
- Asset valuation and
selectivity
Pangea III also contributes to our business efficiency by
enabling an early assessment of the value of exploration acreage
and asset opportunities, thus enhancing selectivity in our new
ventures.
Pangea III’s enhanced capabilities will also extend to new
applications within the Group, such as molecular modeling to
optimize refining processes or improve lubricants’ properties. In
addition, it will enable our R&D teams to test complex new
algorithms and facilitate the development of artificial
intelligence solutions, an important growth area for Total as
illustrated by our partnership with Google Cloud.
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About Total
Total is a major energy player that produces and markets fuels,
natural gas and low-carbon electricity. Our 100,000 employees are
committed to better energy that is safer, more affordable, cleaner
and accessible to as many people as possible. Active in more than
130 countries, our ambition is to become the responsible energy
major.
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1 A petaflop is a quadrillion (thousand trillion) floating point
operations ("flops") per second.2 A petabyte is a million gigabytes
of data
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