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  • Deep Learning Portends 'Sea Change' for Oil and Gas Sector

    03/15/2018 1:44:40 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 34 replies
    Enterprise Tech ^ | February 2, 2018 | Tiffany Trader and Doug Black
    The billowing compute and data demands that spurred the oil and gas industry to be the largest commercial users of high-performance computing are now propelling the competitive sector to deploy the latest AI technologies. Beyond the requirement for accurate and speedy seismic and reservoir simulation, oil and gas operations face torrents of sensor, geolocation, weather, drilling and seismic data. Just the sensor data alone from one off-shore rig can accrue to hundreds of terabytes of data annually, but most of this remains unanalyzed, dark data. Why? Because there just isn't enough compute capacity to crunch it all. A collaboration between...