The latest release of Geomodeling’s SBED 2006 includes the ability to incorporate bioturbation in its flow models and new multi-phase upscaling functionality. SBED characterizes reservoir potential through small-scale heterogeneity modeling and flow-based upscaling.
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General Robotics Ltd. has just released DeepSim 1.0, a desktop subsea planning and training simulator. DeepSim is a scenario planning application offering dynamic visualization of complex subsea scenarios. DeepSim models the hydrodynamic response of objects such as ROVs, tethers and moorings when acted on by currents and surface vessel motion. DeepSim targets offshore contractors involved in survey, inspection, maintenance and repair, drilling and pipe laying.
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Altair Engineering has just released a special version of its workload management solution for high performance computing (HPC), PBS Professional for IBM’s Blue Gene massively parallel Blue Gene supercomputers. PBS Professional maximizes the utilization of computing resources by intelligently scheduling and managing computational workloads. Blue Gene currently occupies the number one spot on top500.org. In the oil and gas sector, ConocoPhillips uses PBS Pro for its HPC workload management.
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The latest version of DataFlux promises data managers a ‘single version of the truth’ for data governance, compliance and master data management (MDM). Key features of Version 8 include ‘accelerators,’ pre-built workflows, a new data quality integration platform and new metadata discovery and data monitoring capabilities. The package includes customizable reporting on data that does not meet corporate quality and integrity standards.
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Microsoft announced that the international standards body ECMA has approved its ‘Office Open XML’ formats and is to submit them to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The Microsoft initiative came partly in response to a threat from OASIS’ OpenDocument format (ISO/IEC DIS 26300).
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A new release of CD-Adapco’s STAR-CCM promises a faster route from complex geometry to accurate flow simulation. STAR-CCM includes surface-wrapping, advanced automated meshing (creating either polyhedral or predominantly hexahedral control volumes) and cut and paste of meshes between calculations. STAR-CCM uses an automatic surface wrapper that ‘shrinks’ a triangulated surface mesh onto any geometrical model, closing holes in the geometry and joining disconnected and overlapping surfaces. The resulting single manifold surface is used to generate a computational mesh without user intervention.
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