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New Industry Outreach at TACC
Melyssa FratkinIndustrial Programs Director
April 6, 2011
Why Industrial Outreach?
• Simple economics – budgets are tight all over
• Industry has research needs
• Share knowledge and information
• Stretch to new research areas, applications
• Support economic development in Texas
The STAR Program
• Membership for information/knowledge sharing– Training in HPC methods, techniques
– Recruiting trained workforce
– Workshops, reports, publications
• Sponsored research projects using TACC systems, support, expertise– HPC
– Visualization
– Data Mining and Analysis
Missing Middle @ TACC• TACC is focusing on the “missing middle” in the
energy industry – Over 3000 small- to mid-sized independent oil & gas
companies in Texas!
• Large energy companies are heavy users of HPC– Using their own systems, or doing research at TACC
• What could these smaller companies do if they had more HPC experience, knowledge, support?– More accuracy in drilling; get more from each well
Potential Research Projects
• Hydraulic fracturing, or ‘fracing’: improved modeling & simulation of different types of proppants; determining impact of proppants on the area around the drill site.
– Groundwater infiltration; earthquakes in AL, WV
• Accuracy of software simulations: Compare current drilling/3D reservoir models to real-world results.
• Testing ISV software on larger systems
– Software licensing issues
Missing Middle @ TACC
• Training in modeling & simulation
• Offer a web portal (a la EWI) for ‘fracing’ simulations and reservoir modeling – Need expertise of modelers and geologists to create
portal
– Modeled on existing software; easy to use
• Challenge: Reservoir data is proprietary and very valuable!
Other HPC Centers
• TACC is not the only academic HPC Center in Texas
• Other centers across the US, also looking to collaborate
• Budgets are tight all over
• Federal budget worries, esp for NSF, DOE, NIH – Freshman class in Congress
– Continuing budget resolutions
CASC
• Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation
• Association of centers at universities & national labs
• 66 centers in 35 states (plus DC)
• www.casc.org
Thanks!
Questions – about TACC or CASC
Melyssa Fratkin
512-471-9961