This Oil Major Has a Supercomputer the Size of a Soccer Field
- Italian company sees new supercomputer fast-tracking oil finds
- Steep investments dwarfed by costs of drilling in wrong place
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Big Oil is now Big Tech. So big, in fact, that Eni SpA’s new supercomputer is the size of a soccer field.
In the multimillion-dollar pursuit of the world’s most powerful computers, the Italian explorer says it’s taken the lead. Its new machine, located outside Milan, will scan for oil and gas reservoirs deep below the Earth over thousands of miles.