Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:47:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 BrunoCO.pdf: 708202 bytes, checksum: 3eb4368a0c268064bcd6ad892e1f2c0c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-05-22 / The constant increase of complexity in computer applications demands the development of more powerful hardware support for them. With processor's operational frequency reaching its limit, the most viable solution is the use of parallelism. Based on parallelism techniques and the progressive growth in the capacity of transistors integration in a single chip is the concept of MPSoCs (Multi-Processor System-on-Chip). MPSoCs will eventually become a cheaper and faster alternative to supercomputers and clusters, and applications developed for these high performance systems will migrate to computers equipped with MP-SoCs containing dozens to hundreds of computation cores. In particular, applications in the area of oil and natural gas exploration are also characterized by the high processing capacity required and would benefit greatly from these high performance systems. This work intends to evaluate a traditional and complex application of the oil and gas industry known as reservoir simulation, developing a solution with integrated computational systems in a single chip, with hundreds of functional unities. For this, as the STORM (MPSoC Directory-Based Platform) platform already has a shared memory model, a new distributed memory model were developed. Also a message passing library has been developed folowing MPI standard / O constante aumento da complexidade das aplica??es demanda um suporte de hardware computacionalmente mais poderoso. Com a aproxima??o do limite de velocidade dos processadores, a solu??o mais vi?vel ? o paralelismo. Baseado nisso e na crescente capacidade de integra??o de transistores em um ?nico chip surgiram os chamados MPSoCs (Multiprocessor System-on-Chip) que dever?o ser, em um futuro pr?ximo, uma alternativa mais r?pida e mais barata aos supercomputadores e clusters. Aplica??es tidas como destinadas exclusivamente a execu??o nesses sistemas de alto desempenho dever?o migrar para m?quinas equipadas com MPSoCs dotados de dezenas a centenas de n?cleos computacionais. Aplica??es na ?rea de explora??o de petr?leo e g?s natural tamb?m se caracterizam pela enorme capacidade de processamento requerida e dever?o se beneficiar desses novos sistemas de alto desempenho. Esse trabalho apresenta uma avalia??o de uma tradicional e complexa aplica??o da ind?stria de petr?leo e g?s natural, a simula??o de reservat?rios, sob a nova ?tica do desenvolvimento de sistemas computacionais integrados em um ?nico chip, dotados de dezenas a centenas de unidades funcionais. Para isso, um modelo de mem?ria distribu?da foi desenvolvido para a plataforma STORM (MPSoC Directory-Based Platform), que j? contava com um modelo de mem?ria compartilhada. Foi desenvolvida, ainda, uma biblioteca de troca de mensagens para esse modelo de mem?ria seguindo o padr?o MPI