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ANSYS, Saudi Aramco and KAUST
achieve supercomputing milestone
The calculations were run on the
Shaheen II, a Cray XC40 supercomputer,
hosted at the KAUST Supercomputing
Core Lab (KSL).
ANSYS, Saudi Aramco and King Abdullah
University of Science and Technology
have achieved a new supercomputing
milestone by scaling ANSYS Fluent to
nearly 200,000 processor cores. This
record represents a more than five-
fold increase over the record set just
three years ago, which will enable
organisations to make critical decisions
faster and increase the overall efficiency
of oil and gas production facilities.
By leveraging high-performance
computing, ANSYS, Saudi Aramco
and the KSL sped up a complex
simulation of a separation vessel from
several weeks to an overnight run.
This simulation is critical to all oil and
gas production facilities, empowering
organisations around the world to
reduce design development time and
better predict equipment performance
under varying operational conditions.
Saudi Aramco will apply this technology
to make more-informed, timely
decisions to retrofit separation vessels
to optimise operation throughout an oil
field's lifetime.
"Today's regulatory requirements
and market expectations mean that
manufacturers must develop products
that are cleaner, safer, more efficient and
more reliable," said Wim Slagter, director
of HPC and cloud alliances at ANSYS.
"To reach such targets, designers and
engineers must understand product
performance with higher accuracy
than ever before, especially for
separation technologies, where an
improved separation performance can
immediately increase the efficiency and
profitability of an oil field.
“The supercomputing collaboration
between ANSYS, Saudi Aramco and KSL
enabled enhanced insight in complex
gas, water and crude-oil flows inside a
separation vessel.”
Partnership
praised by prince
A Saudi telecommunications company has won some extra
special praise. HRH Prince Faisal bin Mishaal Al Saud, governor
of Qassim, stated that: “Saudi Telecom Company’s (STC)
services emulates the best global peers, and we see innovation
and quality of services from our national company.”
After signing the technological agreement between the
governorate and the company, in addition to launching
several technological agreements, his highness added: “We
value and thank STC for the services offered and those yet to
be offered in Qassim and all around the kingdom.
“It is truly the strategic partner on which we depend to
implement different initiatives specially regarding IT security
and antiviruses.
“STC will participate largely in the smart technical
transformation which we strongly seek to provide convenient
service for nationals and residents and to create an
integrated smart and paperless environment. We in the
governorate of Qassim, in cooperation with STC, are the
pioneers in activating this trend which complies with the
goals of 2030 vision”.
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Nasser Al Nasser, Technology and Operations SVP, thanked
the prince for his evaluation of STC services.
“The cooperation with Qassim governorate is the best model
of partnership between public and private sectors,” he said.
He stated that the partnership with Qassim governorate aims
to transfer it to a smart region.
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