The authors have ported a fully implicit equation-of-state (EOS) compositional
parallel reservoir simulator to run on clusters of PCs. They report on the
performance of the code on two clusters, both in terms of scalability and in
absolute performance relative to an IBM SP. The simulator scales well through 16
processors on the clusters and is comparable in execution time with the SP.
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