Toward building green computing environment for reservoir simulation

In this paper, we analyze the level of power consumption for running large scale hydrocarbonreservoir simulation on high performance clusters (HPC), which may impact the data center design and the overall environment for running massive simulation models. We derive energy consumption from simulation run time and the power needed to keep associated processors running. We then propose a metric that ties reservoir simulation to Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) factor based on energy consumption per-node. This factor works as the efficiency target that can be adjusted to balance execution time and power consumption.