Abu Dhabi-based Zakum Development Company (ZADCO), one of the leading operating companies in the UAE’s oil industry, has been able to cut the time taken to carry out reservoir simulation calculations on its supercomputers from two weeks to just 50 hours, resulting in a massive productivity gain for its Reservoir Modelling Teams.
This follows the installation by SGI and Emirates Computers of a cluster of 64-bit SGI Altix 350 Linux-based supercomputers incorporating breakthrough Itanium II processor technology at the oil company's Abu Dhabi offices.
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