This supercomputing record represents a more than 5x increase over the record set just three years ago, when Fluent first reached the 36,000 core scaling milestone. The calculations were run on the Shaheen II, a Cray® XC40 supercomputer, hosted at the KAUST Supercomputing Core Lab. By leveraging high performance computing, ANSYS, Saudi Aramco and KSL sped up a complex simulation of a separation vessel from several weeks to an overnight run. This simulation is critical to all oil and gas production facilities empowering organizations around the world to reduce design development time and better predict equipment performance under varying operational conditions. Saudi Aramco will apply this technology to make more-informed, timely decisions to retrofit separation vessels to optimize operation throughout an oil field's lifetime.

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