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The new data centre will provide
the ideal place for housing
and running efficiently the
calculation systems necessary
for supporting the up-stream processes.
As far as concerns
the Exploration and Production division
a division where
technology is not only
a fundamental element for success
but is also a basic requisite
for operating on the markets
high performance computing systems
are extremely important in
at least three key sectors of activity:
the first is
the identification of new resources
the second: access to resources
and finally the maximisation
of area coverage the deposits.
Over recent years geophysics
has refined
a series of seismic analysis algorithms
many of which it
has only been possible to
use recently as it is
only recently that
technology has advanced
enough to provide the necessary
processing power to support them.
Some of these algorithms are still
not usable due to energy efficiency
matters, or because
we do not have a
sufficient level of processing power.
To give a quantitative dimension
to this phenomenon,
I can tell you that today,
in the E&P division
we have about 300 teraflops
of processing power available.
A teraflop means
a thousand billion floating point
operations per second
so, to support
the geophysical algorithms
which will be required in the near future
we will need much greater
levels of power,
passing from teraflops to petaflops
a petaflop is
a million billion
floating point operations per second.
Today the factor
limiting the size of
the processing power available
is dictated by
electricity consumption.
These machines are
greedy electricity consumers
So here, the new data centre
with its high level of energy efficiency
will offer us a sustainable route
for the growth of these systems
enabling us to face with tranquillity
all the requests for technological development
we may get to support
the Exploration and Production divisions
business.