Green HPC for Reservoir Simulation Computing

We examine the level of power consumption for large scale reservoir simulation, which may impact the facility design and overall environment of running massive simulation models. We analyze power consumption for various scenarios of simulation on a computational platform. Energy consumption can be derived from simulation run time and the power needed to keep associated processors running. We 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.