Energy

As a geoscientist, your job defines high risk high reward. You work with seismic data acquisition crews to process and transform a range of physical sources and numerical model data into analyses that determine whether your company or industry consortium will commit billions of dollars to open a new petroleum reserve. If your assessment is right, the payoff is enormous. Guess wrong, well…clearly, you don’t want your HPC equipment letting you down. Previously, major advances in technology would appear first in proprietary SMP machines; now the forefront of activity is in commodity hardware.

As with other technical disciplines that depend on multi-variant simulations, you need state-of-the-art tools to interpret this variety of data types. New software tools are being developed to interpret multiple 3D datasets to extract real seismic differences over time. To process multiple seismic surveys for time-sequenced data, evaluate well logs and production histories, and monitor past drainage, HPC cluster solutions can help you more accurately predict future drainage and calculate hydrocarbon volumes.

If you’re an IT professional, your HPC users will rely on you to support departmental installations. Tools that can give system administrators added capabilities for application installation and provisioning will make life much easier for everyone.

As part of your vendor evaluation, our Penguin engineers will help you benchmark the performance of your specific applications and problems on our equipment. Our Professional Services Group can support you through installation, shakedown and on-going provisioning.