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computing power of the Pangea has been increased to 6.7
petaflops from 2.3 previously, Total said on Tuesday, the
equivalent of around 80,000 laptops combined and making it the
most powerful in the oil and gas sector.
A prolonged fall in oil prices since mid-2014 has pushed
companies in the sector to look for new ways to cut costs and
make savings as they reduce investments.
"This power will help us to improve our performance and to
reduce our costs," said Arnaud Breuillac, Total's exploration
and production president. "In the era of big data,
state-of-the-art data-intensive computing is a competitive
advantage."
Total did not say how much the upgrade cost, nor how much it
expected to save.
The supercomputer at Total's research center in the southwestern
French city of Pau was designed by California-based Silicon
Graphics International.
According to www.top500.org, which ranks supercomputers twice a
year, Tianhe-2 in the National Super Computer Center in
Guangzhou, China, is the world's most powerful at over 33
petaflops.
(Reporting by Bate Felix; Editing by Mark Potter)
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