HTML version of Scripted Foils prepared 26 January 97 
| 1 | Oil Resevoir Simulation |
| 2 | Geological variation occurs down to pore size of rock - almost 10-6 metres - model this (statistically) |
| 3 | Want to calculate flow between wells which are about 400 metres apart |
| 4 | 103x103x102 = 108 grid elements |
| 5 | 30 species |
| 6 | 104 time steps |
| 7 | 300 separate cases need to be considered |
| 8 | 3x109 words of memory per case |
| 9 | 1012 words total if all cases considered in parallel |
| 10 | 1019 floating point operation |
| 11 | 3 hours on a petaflop computer |