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Taking Oil and Gas Exploration to the Next Level

 Taking Oil and Gas Exploration to the Next Level - IoT ONE Case Study
Technology Category
  • Processors & Edge Intelligence - Embedded & Edge Computers
Applicable Industries
  • Oil & Gas
The Challenge

DownUnder GeoSolutions (DUG) wanted to increase computing performance by 5 to 10 times to improve seismic processing. The solution must build on current architecture software investments without sacrificing existing software and scale computing without scaling IT infrastructure costs.

The Customer
DownUnder GeoSolutions
About The Customer
DownUnder GeoSolutions is an innovative geosciences company with a diverse range of capabilities. Their products and services are at the cutting edge of exploration and production services to the global oil and gas industry.
The Solution

DUG deployed SGI Rackable cluster powered by Intel coprocessors and Intel Xeon processor. DUG was able to scale its software to the latest highly parallel architecture for faster seismic processing and imaging while enhancing algorithmic gains in existing software.

Data Collected
Seismic Processing
Operational Impact
  • [Efficiency Improvement - R&D]

    Ongoing application development and improvements are relatively quick and inexpensive to implement due to the system's flexibility.

  • [Efficiency Improvement - Installation]

    Deployment was efficient due to transparency.

  • [Cost Reduction - IT]

    Total cost of ownership is lowered due to reduction in IT maintenance.

Quantitative Benefit
  • The solution achieved up to 8 times node-to-node performance improvement.

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