Software, hardware short takes …

Upstream: Beicip’s OpenFlow 2022, AspenTech Paradigm 22, Esri updates ArcGIS Business Analyst Pro, BuildCentral launches Geospatial Energy and Mining, Quorum Energy Suite ‘expanded’, Rock Flow Dynamics’s tNavigator updated, Ceetron releases new ResInsight. Operations/downstream: Brad Adams Walker aligns with ISO 11064, new solutions from Dover Fueling, Geoforce’s new asset trackers, Implico’s Connected Truck now in SAP Store. Computing: Altair cleared to sell ‘alternative’ SAS language, ArrayFire’s ‘free’ GPU Python math library, MemComputing’s HPC architecture, Siemens/NVIDIA team on ‘industrial metaverse’, NVIDIA - parallel Fortran for GPUs.

Upstream

Beicip, the consulting and software arm of the French Petroleum Institute IFPen had rolled out OpenFlow 2022, its flagship E&P Software. The expanded offering is said to be a ‘complete platform for basin, petroleum system and reservoir assessment’ with solutions for geothermal and carbon storage modeling. OpenFlow Suite is now is also available in the cloud. Read the rather elegant release notes.

AspenTech has rolled-out Paradigm 22 with improved classification and volume visualization functionalities and a ‘one-stop-shop’ in is Integrated Canvas. Legacy applications VoxelGeo and Stratimagic have been replaced by new licensing configurations of SeisEarth. The release addresses the energy transition with new functions in SKUA-GOCAD and Geolog targeting the geothermal energy and carbon capture and storage market segments. More from ApsenTech/Paradigm.

Esri has announced new functionality in ArcGIS Business Analyst Pro, an ArcGIS Pro extension for spatial analysis and modeling. The latest version allows for the management of locally-installed ‘connectable’ datasets that can be accessed without installing the software. More in the Esri article on connectable datasets for ArcGIS BA.

BuildCentral has launched Geospatial Energy and Mining (GEM) targeting, inter alia, resource extraction and processing, and pipeline projects. GEM spans exploration, feasibility operations and maintenance. More from BuildCentral.

Quorum Software has announced an ‘expanded global vision’ for its Quorum Energy Suite flagship. Following last year’s merger between Quorum and Aucerna, and the acquisition of TietoEVRY’s Oil and Gas software business, Quorum has unified its 38 applications into a single portfolio. Applications span nine functional areas of the industry from upstream planning, economics, and reserves through execution and well operations, accounting, land management, and production optimization, to midstream and measurement, plus transportation and cargo logistics. More from the new website.

The V22.2 release of Rock Flow Dynamics’s tNavigator introduces a multicomponent model of fluids and proppants for flow calculations during fracking. A custom database of fluids and proppants can be created and maintained. For geosteering applications, real time data streaming in WITSML format has been implemented. The new release includes multiple improvements to Network Designer and integrated subsurface-surface modeling. Support for mining industry formats and features has been added to Geology Designer. More from Rock Flow.

Ceetron Solutions AS has released version 2022.06 of ResInsight with improved workflows, drag and drop functions and plotting. More in the release notes and download the code from GIT.

Operations/downstream

Brad Adams Walker warns operators of ‘dated’ control rooms that they may not be aligned with the latest ISO 11064 standard for ergonomic design including layout and dimensions of workstations. ISO 11064 is a ‘tome’ of control room best practices, the purpose of which is to enhance human performance and promote safety. BAW is offering a control room audit to establish a road map to get to ISO 11064 compliance. ‘Don’t let your dated control room become a hazard to your employees and your company’.

Dover Fueling Solutions has announced a range of new solutions for the retail fueling market. Too many to mention here! Visit Dover for more.

Geoforce has rolled out two new rugged asset trackers. The new GT2c device operates on LTE-M low-power cellular IoT networks for operations in cellular service range. The GT2h hybrid device operates on cellular networks where available, automatically switching to Iridium-powered satellite connectivity if cellular coverage is lost. Both integrate with Geoforce’s Track and Trace software platform. More from Geoforce.

Implico’s Connected Truck solution is now available on the SAP Store and is part of SAP’s industry cloud portfolio for oil, gas, and energy. The solution leverages the integration capabilities of SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) to integrate with SAP S/4HANA using SAP Integration Suite. Connected Truck establishes a direct link between truck driver and back office, a ‘game-changer’ for trip planning and reconciliation for bulk deliveries. More in the release.

Computing

Following a protracted legal tussle, Altair can now market the ‘alternative’ SAS language it acquired when it bought UK-based World Programing last December. WP was involved in a long legal battle with the SAS Institute over alleged copyright infringement, this has now been settled. Altair is now enthusiastically promoting the SAS statistical programming language as a component of its ‘Altair Unlimited’ data analytics offering. SAS was originally developed in the 1970s but Altair believes that for many functions ‘the language remains exceptional, and its use for data processing across industry is still widespread’. More in the Altair release.

ArrayFire, developer of the Jacket GPU engine for Matlab has released a new open source project. The eponymous ArrayFire Python library of math functions for GPUs is ‘totally free’. ArrayFire offers a high level, cross platform environment spanning CUDA and OpenCL targets including NVIDIA GPUs, AMD GPUs/APUs and Intel processors, as well as mobile OpenCL devices from ARM, Qualcomm, and others.

Jon Beane, speaking at a recent meet of the Society of High Performance Computing presented the technology that his company MemComputing is developing. MemComputing is working on a novel architecture that combines compute and memory in the same chip. It is said to be ‘similar to quantum computing’ but runs (could run?) on today’s silicon. The canonical (2015) MemComputing reference ‘NP-complete problems in polynomial time using polynomial resources and collective states has since kicked-up some critical dust.

Siemens and NVIDIA are teaming on an ‘industrial metaverse’ to ‘transform manufacturing’ with immersive experiences across the lifecycle. The solution will connect NVIDIA Omniverse and Siemens Xcelerator platforms to enable full-fidelity digital twins and connect software-defined AI systems from edge to cloud. More in the release.

A blog on the NVIDIA developer website by Miko Stulajter and colleagues discusses the use of Fortran standard parallel programming for GPU acceleration. Standard languages have begun adding features that compilers can use for accelerated GPU and CPU parallel programming, for instance, ‘do concurrent’ loops and array math in Fortran. Such features make for future-proofed programming. Fortran’s ‘do concurrent’ is a standard language feature and ‘the chances of support being lost in the future are slim’. Do concurrent is also a great way to add GPU support without having to learn GPU-specific code.

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