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Toward Cost-Effective Reservoir Simulation Solvers on GPUs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2016

Zheng Li*
Affiliation:
Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, China
Shuhong Wu*
Affiliation:
Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development, CNPC, Beijing 100083, China
Jinchao Xu*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Chensong Zhang*
Affiliation:
LSEC & NCMIS, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Beijing 100190, China
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*Corresponding author. Email:lizhxtu@126.com (Z. Li), wush@petrochina.com.cn (S.Wu), xu@math.psu.edu (J. Xu), zhangcs@lsec.cc.ac.cn (C. Zhang)
*Corresponding author. Email:lizhxtu@126.com (Z. Li), wush@petrochina.com.cn (S.Wu), xu@math.psu.edu (J. Xu), zhangcs@lsec.cc.ac.cn (C. Zhang)
*Corresponding author. Email:lizhxtu@126.com (Z. Li), wush@petrochina.com.cn (S.Wu), xu@math.psu.edu (J. Xu), zhangcs@lsec.cc.ac.cn (C. Zhang)
*Corresponding author. Email:lizhxtu@126.com (Z. Li), wush@petrochina.com.cn (S.Wu), xu@math.psu.edu (J. Xu), zhangcs@lsec.cc.ac.cn (C. Zhang)
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Abstract

In this paper, we focus on graphical processing unit (GPU) and discuss how its architecture affects the choice of algorithm and implementation of fully-implicit petroleum reservoir simulation. In order to obtain satisfactory performance on new many-core architectures such as GPUs, the simulator developers must know a great deal on the specific hardware and spend a lot of time on fine tuning the code. Porting a large petroleum reservoir simulator to emerging hardware architectures is expensive and risky. We analyze major components of an in-house reservoir simulator and investigate how to port them to GPUs in a cost-effective way. Preliminary numerical experiments show that our GPU-based simulator is robust and effective. More importantly, these numerical results clearly identify the main bottlenecks to obtain ideal speedup on GPUs and possibly other many-core architectures.

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