The aim of the experiment is to validate the technical and economic viability of geo-science processing on the Grid by consolidating the EGEODE (Expanding Geosciences On Demand). EGEODE is a Virtual Organization, opened to Research Centers in geophysics and other geosciences from both Industrial (public-private) and Academic world, focused on the oil & gas application domain.

Fact Sheet

• BE18 Seismic Processing and Reservoir Simulation - Factsheet
• BE18 Seismic Processing and Reservoir Simulation - Case Study

Objectives

Modern seismic data processing and geophysical simulations require greater amounts of computing power, data storage and sophisticated software. The research community hardly keeps pace with this evolution, resulting in difficulties for small or medium research centres to exploit their innovative algorithms.
Grid Computing is an opportunity to foster sharing of computer resources and give access to large computing power for a limited period of time at an affordable cost, as well as sharing data and sophisticated software.
The capability to solve new complex problems and validate innovative algorithms on real scale problems is also a way to attract and keep the brightest researchers for the benefit of both the academic and industrial R&D geosciences communities. Under the “umbrella” of the EGEE Infrastructure project was created EGEODE, “Expanding Geosciences On Demand” Open Virtual Organization.

The aim of the experiment within BEINGRID framework is:

1. To validate the technical viability of geosciences processing on the grid by consolidating EGEODE applications and packaging
2. To validate the economic viability by creating a model for economics suitable for EGEODE Virtual Organization.

Final goal is to consolidate EGEODE into a sustainable growing user community for Industry / Research and Education in geosciences collaboration:

• Geographically, to new users, and in new participant countries including the newer European member countries.
• Scientifically, from geophysics to general geosciences and reservoir simulation

Direct partners of this experiment are a subset of the core team of EGEODE V.O. but the full community will benefit from the results.

Context

The main business objective of this BE is to validate the economics viability by creating a model for economics suitable for EGEODE Virtual Organization and to explore new business generated by deploying grid technology in Oil & Gas, in term of cost saving and support of IT.
The technical objective of this BE is to validate the technical viability of geosciences processing on the grid by consolidating EGEODE actual applications, in using and validating gLite outside the general EGEE infrastructure.

Industrial added-value

Many typical Grid Computing projects aim pure Research domains in infrastructure, middleware and usage. Our project moves the focus towards collaboration between Industry and Academia. There are two main potential impacts:

1. The transfer of know-how and services to industry. Three out of four partners are industrial partners. Two of them are SME.
2. The consolidation and extension of EGEODE community, which includes both industrial and academic research centres.

Three out of four partners are industrial, commercial companies, which intend to exploit the knowledge acquired by this Experiment in their own business areas and to validate a model where services are subcontracted to the industry. This will be an extremely useful feedback I3’s and IP’s financed by FP6.

Workplan

The experiment is based on 3 main phases

1. Consolidation of applications and services, additional porting, install tools to gather information for setting up the economic model, feedback to BEINGRID core tools.
2. Run the applications, gathers figures, simulate and design the economic model.
3. Integrate last versions of software (both middleware and applications), experiment the economic model, final report.

Partners

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