SBIR Phase I: Grid Computing for Energy Exploration and Development

这个小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目将调查虚拟计算机环境的实施，该环境利用互联网的带宽和连接以及多个地理上分散的计算机系统提供的计算机资源。 该解决方案将应用于计算最密集的商业行业之一：全球20亿美元的能源勘探和开发地震成像市场。 这是一个强有力的和令人信服的演示，展示了互联网和网格计算增强终端消费者真实的时间价值链的能力，并将为能源勘探行业和其他计算密集型市场带来新的业务方法，例如：流体流动建模，航空，遗传模拟，计算化学，天体物理学，核模拟，网格技术的具体示范将在地震计算市场（每年20亿美元）。 由于已知储量的供应减少以及全球对新石油和天然气来源的竞争加剧，这一市场一直在扩大。 由于钻井威尔斯的高成本，在钻井前准确成像和评估储层的能力对于勘探公司来说是至关重要的。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will investigate the implementation of a virtual computer environment that leverages the bandwidth and connectivity of the Internet and computer resources available from multiple geographically dispersed computer systems. This solution will be applied to one of the most compute intensive commercial industries: the 2 billion dollar worldwide seismic imaging market for energy exploration and development. This is a powerful and compelling demonstration of the abilities of the Internet and grid computing to enhance the real time value chain for the end consumer, and will usher in a new business approach for the energy exploration industry, and for other compute intensive markets such as: fluid flow modeling, aeronautics, genetic simulation, computational chemistry, astrophysics, nuclear simulation, and computational physics.The particular demonstration of the Grid technology will be in the seismic computing market ($2 billion per year). This market has been expanding because of the dwindling supply of known reserves and the increased worldwide competition for new sources of oil and gas. The capability to accurately image and evaluate reservoirs before drilling is fundamentally important to exploration companies because of the high cost of drilling wells.