Ken Kennedy Institute at Rice University Offers Insights into Exascale Computing for the Oil and Gas Industry

Rice
University’s Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology (“Ken
Kennedy Institute” or the “Institute”) is set to host the 11^th
annual Rice
Oil and Gas High Performance Computing Conference in Houston, Texas
on March 12-13, 2018 with plans for multi-disciplinary discussion about
the role of exascale (10¹⁸) computing, the latest research,
trends and IT innovations for the oil and gas industry.

Several hundred participants from the academic/national labs community,
the IT industry and the oil and gas industry will come together to
learn, assess industry needs and foster relationships across all three
disciplines. Conference highlights include opening keynote speaker Doug
Kothe of Oak
Ridge National Lab and Director of the Department
of Energy’s Exascale
Computing Project, who will address the status and future of the
Exascale Computing Project and the potential impact of exascale
computing’s computational power in the oil and gas industry. Ahmed
Hashmi, Global Head of Upstream Technology at BP
will offer an inside perspective on the importance of high performance
computing for the energy industry.

Executive Director Comments
Jan
E. Odegard, Executive Director of the Ken Kennedy Institute, asks,
“Will exascale be a commercially viable product? Is it good enough to
just build capable hardware, or do we need to do a better job training
people and providing software and tools that will enable developers to
efficiently leverage performance for oil and gas applications?”

About the Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology
The
Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology is dedicated to the
advancement of research in the fields of computing, data science and
information technology. The Institute’s goal is to provide broad support
for a strong community of research experimentation that challenges
traditional disciplinary limits. It serves as a catalyst for research
collaboration across the conventional boundaries of school, department,
center and laboratory.

Conference logistics
Location: Rice University’s BioScience
Research Collaborative
6500 Main Street, Houston, TX 77030

Conference program and registration: http://rice2018oghpc.rice.edu/

The views and opinions expressed here belong to Jan. E. Odegard and
do not necessarily reflect those of Rice University.

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