Oak Ridge is participating in the Gas and Oil National Information Infrastructure (GO-NII) project which is a U.S. Department of Energy Defense Programs Technology Transfer Initiative. In cooperation with Los Alamos, Livermore and Sandia National Laboratories, Oak Ridge is researching dual-use infrastructure needs applicable to both the defense industry and the geographically distributed gas and oil industry. Under this project, Oak Ridge is participating in the multi-lab development of a synthetic seismic dataset for petroleum exploration benchmarking which will form the basis for a computing and communications testbed with the gas and oil industry.
In addition Oak Ridge is researching network infrastructure needs including: data-distributed visualization (as an acceptable front end to massively parallel computing environments), virtual reality (interactive immersion environments for scientific investigation and communication), computational steering (to allow a scientist to alter a simulation in real-time), remote collaboration environments (to allow geographically distributed scientists and managers access to the same 'objects' on their workstations), and on-line information services (to provide access to information within this project). Current projects underway include: Synthetic Seismic Dataset Generation, Data-Distributed Visualization, Virtual Environments, Petroleum Technology Transfer Council, Remote Collaborative Tools, SC 94 Demonstration, Hydrofracture Studies, API (formerly Amoco) ATM Testbed, and ESnet Upgrades.
For more information about GO-NII, link to http://cewww.eng.ornl.gov/gonii/home.html