his shifted environment. First we are trying to
find oil and gas toda

y in places where yesterday we had
given up. The scientific software t

hat we write and use
today solves physical models that have grown expon

entially
in their complexity and difficulty in comparison to the
ph

ysical models we were solving with our software code in
the 1980s. As

energy becomes scarcer software will need
to increase in complexity to
allow us to continue to find
those resources. Second shifting econom

ies have led to
corporate mergers. A large multi-national company like

ConocoPhillips requires a diverse array of skills and needs
to de

ploy those skills across the globe. For example look
at network engin

eering. Every office in our company needs
to connect hundreds of users
to dozens of servers terabytes
of disk storage backup systems etc.
and a wide area network.
We need to be able to do this with the lowest
latency highest
bandwidth and lowest cost for each of these connecti

ons.
Our network engineers need software skills hardware skills
a

nd the ability to supervise the technicians who deal with
the equipment

.

During my presentation I will show you a couple of projects
my
team is working on within the technology department on
the exploration
and production side of the business. One of
these involves high perfo

rmance computing (HPC) and the
other involves agile software developmen

t and a sustainable
software process we are using to build scientific a