Oil and gas sector has notoriously complex scientific problems. One solution has been High Performance Computing (HPC). With the 21st century's hardware commoditization and speed acceleration, it is exciting to see an oil company investment in tripling its supercomputing power by approximately 3 fold. Yet, what is more encouraging is that this is being done during one of the worse oil price crashes. Hat's of to Total.
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