Reservoir Simulation on a Hypercube

Presentation of a testing of a 3D parallel implicit reservoir simulator for an Intel iPSC/2 hypercube with 16 vector processors. The simulator is based on an oil/water model. A correlation of computation efficiency with problem size and the number of processors demonstrates that up up to 96% of the available CPU time on the hypercube can be used. Such high efficiencies were achieved by developing special algorithms well suited for multiple processors and distributed memory.