Technical Programme Schedule

Sunday | 6 October 2019

18:00 - 20:00 Icebreaker Reception 

Monday | 7 October 2019

Oral Presentations

08:00Registration & Welcome Coffee
08:30HSE from Hotel
08:35Co-chair Welcome
08:45Keynote: The Convergence of Big Data and Large-scale Simulation
David Keyes (KAUST)
Seismic Modelling & Imaging - Part I
Session Chairs: V. Etienne (Saudi Aramco), A. St-Cyr (Shell Global Solutions)
09:30HPC01 - GeoDRIVE, an HPC flexible platform for seismic applications
G. Sindi1*, V. Etienne1, A. Momin1, T. Tonellot1
Saudi Aramco, EXPEC Advanced Research Center

10:00HPC02 - One-way wave equation migration of common-offset vector gathers: parallel multi CPU/GPU implementation
A. Pleshkevich4, V. Lisitsa2*, D. Vishnevsky1, V. Levchenko3
Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology & Geophysics SBRAS; 2 Sobolev Institute of Mathematics; 3 Institute of AppliedMathematics RAS; 4 Central Geophysical Expedition JSC of Rosgeo
10:30Coffee Break
Performance Analysis & Optimization - Part I
Session Chairs: S. Momose (NEC Deutschland Gmbh), P. Thierry (Intel)
11:00HPC03 - A Checkpoint of research on the implementation ofgeophysical stencils on multicore platforms
F. Dupros1*,C. Hillairet1
1
Arm

11:30HPC04 - Saving FLOPs in Geophysics with optimal p-adaptivity
V. Etienne1*
1 Saudi Aramco, EXPEC Advanced Research Center
12:00HPC05 - Alleviating the pressure on memory for seismic modeling
R. Abdelkhalak1*, H. Ltaief1, V. Etienne2, K. Akbudak1,T. Tonellot2, D. Keyes1
1
Extreme Computing Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology; 2 EXPEC Advanced Research Center, Saudi Aramco

12:30Lunch
14:00Breakout Session: HPC Technology Evaluation and Benchmarking
Presented by Andrew Jones (NAG)
15:45Coffee Break
16:15Keynote: Robert Sutor (IBM)
17:00Wrap-up Discussion
17:15End of Day 1

Tuesday | 8 October 2019

08:00Morning Coffee
08:30Keynote: Accelerating ideation & innovation cheaply in the Cloud - the power of abstraction, collaboration & reproducibility 
Felix J. Herrmann (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Emerging HPC Technologies - Part I
Session Chairs: P. Demichel (HPE), A. Alturki (Saudi Aramco)
09:15HPC06 - Automated Distributed-memory Parallelism from Symbolic Specification in Devito
F. Luporini1, R. Nelson1*,T. Burgess2, A. St-Cyr3, G. Gorman1
1
Imperial College London; 2 DownUnder GeoSolutions; 3 Shell

09:45HPC07 - Total takes the deep dive into GPU for Seismic Imaging
L. Boillot1*, D. Klahr1, L. Qu1, X. Lacoste1, M. Bonnasse-Gahot1, J. Montel1, E. Bergounioux1, J. Briche1
1
Total

10:15Coffee Break
Performance Analysis & Optimization - Part II
Session Chairs: J. Phillips (ExxonMobil), P. Souza Filho (Atrio Inc)
10:45HPC08 - CGG: A Journey from Software to Hardware
V. Arslan1*, F. Pautre1, J. Blanc1, T. Barragy1
1 CGG

11:15HPC09 - Weak scalability analysis of GPGPU-based iterativesolvers in a two-phase pore-scale flow simulator
C. Thiele1,M. Araya-Polo2, F. Alpak2, B. Riviere1, D. Hohl2*
1 Rice University; 2 Shell International Exploration & Production, Inc.

11:45HPC10 - Scalable High-Resolution Seismic Tomography
L. Boillot1*, P. Basini1
1
Total

12:15Lunch
Emerging HPC Technologies - Part II
Session Chairs: S. Feki (King Abdullah University ofScience & Technology), G.Y. Youinou (CGG)
13:45Keynote: 

Full application, Full system prediction. 

Where are we exactly and what to expect. 

Philippe Thierry (Intel)
14:30HPC11 - Seismic Processing with Hybrid HPC
P. SouzaFilho1*, A. Sardinha2, C. Ávila1, A. Azambuja2, F. Sierra1,D. De Paula2, M. Vecino1, L. Silva2, N. Ji1
1
 Atrio Inc; 2 Petrobras

15:00HPC12 - Potential applications of quantum computing in upstream
M. Dukalski1*
1 Aramco Overseas Company B.V.
15:30Coffee Break
16:00Panel Discussion
Patrick Demichel (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)
Shintaro Momose (NEC)
Issam Said (Nvidia)
Fabrice Dupros (ARM)
Mohamed Lamine Selmane (Dell EMC)

Moderator: Andrew Jones (NAG)
16:45Wrap-up Discussion
17:00End of Day 2

19:00 - 22:00 Workshop Dinner

Wednesday | 9 October 2019

08:00Morning Coffee
09:00Keynote: Reservoir Simulation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Suha Kayum (Saudi Aramco)
Reservoir Modelling & Simulation /Digital Rock Physics
Session Chair: V. Natoli (Stone Ridge Technology)
09:45HPC13 - 3D simulation of active–passive tracer dispersion in polygonal fractured geometries
S. Khirevich1*, T. Patzek1
1
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

10:15HPC14 - Optimization of Wellbore Placement and Design for Full-Field Development using Computational Mathematical Modeling
M. Al-Ismael1*, G. Al-Qahtani1, A. Al-Turki1,A. Al-Hezam1, K. Dai1
1
Saudi Aramco

10:45Coffee Break
Seismic Modelling & Imaging - Part II
Session Chairs: I. Said (NVIDIA), P. Thierry (Intel)
11:15HPC15 - Boundary Conditions for Seismic Imaging: Computational and Geophysical Points of View
E. Algizawy1*, A. Nasr1, F. Ahdy1, K. Elamrawi1, P. Thierry2
1
Brightskies Inc; 2 Intel

11:45HPC16 - A GPGPU pipeline for fast synthesis of 3D seismic
S. Moore2, A. Costa Nogueira Junior1*, J. Hoffimann1, M. Paredes Quinones1, J.L. Sousa Almeida1
1
IBM Research Brazil; 2 IBM Research Australia

12:15Lunch
13:45Breakout Session: Quantum Computing 101
Presented by IBM
15:30Best Presentation Recognition Award
15:45End of Workshop

Poster Presentations

POS01Incorporating Lossless Compression in Parallel Reservoir Simulation
M. Rogowski (Saudi Aramco)*, S.N. Kayum (Saudi Aramco), F. Mannuss (Saudi Aramco)
POS02Digital Twin of Multiscale Geological Media: Faults, Fracture Corridors, Caves. Seismic simulation and imaging
V. Cheverda (Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology & GeophysicsSB RAS)*, G. Reshetova (Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology& Geophysics SB RAS), V. Lisitsa (Trofimuk Institute of PetroleumGeology & Geophysics SB RAS), M. Protasov (Trofimuk Institute ofPetroleum Geology & Geophysics SB RAS)
POS03A Scientific Workflow for Reverse Time Migration under Uncertainty
C.H. Barbosa (Federal University of Rio deJaneiro)*, B. Silva (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), C. Alves (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), R. Silva (Federal University ofRio de Janeiro), L. Kunstmann (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro),H. Costa (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), J. Alves (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), M. Mattoso (Federal University of Riode Janeiro), F. Rochinha (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), D. Filho (Petrobras), A. Coutinho (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
POS05Exposing Fine-Grained Parallelism in Sequential Gaussian Simulation
M. Khait (TU Delft)*, K. Esler (Stone RidgeTechnology)
POS06GPU Implementation of Line Solve Power Series Preconditioner used in Reservoir Simulation
O. Hajjar (Saudi Aramco)*, A. Alturki (Saudi Aramco), M. Baddouma (Saudi Aramco)
POS07Accelerating seismic parameter estimation with Adaptive Differential Evolution (JADE) and graphics processing units (GPUs)
J. Ribeiro (CEPETRO / UNICAMP)*, N.T. Okita (CEPETRO / UNICAMP), T.A. Coimbra (CEPETRO / UNICAMP),M. Tygel (CEPETRO / UNICAMP)
POS08High-Performance Computing Applications Transition to the Cloud in Upstream
S. Kayum (Saudi Aramco)*, M. Rogowski (Saudi Aramco)