
France-based TotalEnergies has announced the latest version of its Pangea series of supercomputers in Pau, southwest France at the Jean Féger Scientific and Technical Centre.
The Pangea supercomputers were originally deployed to provide the digital processing power needed to support the company’s efforts to explore for hydrocarbon resources, and subsequently develop promising finds. The latest Pangea 4 supercomputer, however, will be available throughout the company, including for the ongoing energy transition that the company is engaged in.
TotalEnergies, which makes the Total grease and coolant products, says Pangea 4 will support the company’s increasingly diverse activities by providing scientific supercomputing to optimise efficiency. This could include simulating wind flows to inform decisions about where to site new windfarms, as well as how to best design them.
It could also provide valuable calculations for estimating the storage capacity of reservoirs for carbon capture and storage and reducing the methane emissions of operations.
The OneTech President at TotalEnergies, Namita Shah, said the launched demonstrated the pioneering spirit at the company, adding:
“…the latest incarnation of Pangea strengthens our lead in industrial digital simulation. It combines supercomputing capacity with cloud computing, allowing the Company to meet the growing and increasingly diverse needs of our activities, especially in new energies, in order to help grow our business through our energy transition strategy.”
Compared to its predecessor, Pangea 4, which combines an onsite machine with cloud computing, will provide double the 24/7 computing power, while taking up less space and using just over a tenth of the electricity.