HPCwire: EMGS Adds More IBRIX Fusion Software

The Leading Source for Global News and Information Covering the Ecosystem of High Productivity Computing

Leading HPC
Solution Providers

HPCwire >> Industry >> Oil & Gas

April 11, 2008

EMGS Adds More IBRIX Fusion Software

Company's new datacenter capable of performing 70 trillion calculations per second

ORLANDO, Fla., Storage Networking World, April 7 -- IBRIX Inc., the leader in scalable file serving solutions, today announced that Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS), the market leaders in deep electromagnetic imaging, has purchased additional IBRIX Fusion file serving software to support its newest compute cluster, named Aurora, located in Trondheim, Norway. EMGS provides valuable information that helps exploration professionals locate commercial hydrocarbon reservoirs and rank prospects for drilling, reducing the risks and costs of drilling dry holes.

The IBRIX solution is integrated with 1,300 new Dell PowerEdge 1955 dual-core servers in addition to their 530 original dual processor Dell PowerEdge 1855 servers and 106 terabytes of EMC CX3-40 storage in 4 EMC CX3-40 arrays. The solution enables EMGS to scale its business and gain a competitive advantage by reducing the time needed to deliver sophisticated information products to energy companies.

EMGS first deployed IBRIX in 2005 in its original datacenter. At that time, EMGS was processing ocean floor data from two ships and supporting scientists in one location. Since then, EMGS has opened four additional offices and grew its fleet to five vessels -- soon to be six. The Aurora cluster supports geologists and geophysicists in all five locations performing three times more surveys than before. In addition, as surveys become more sophisticated with the use of 3D inversion and grid modeling, the computational complexity increases tremendously.

"The continued growth of EMGS places a severe demand on our computing resources, increasing the number of jobs we process from 300 to 15,000+," said Helge Stranden, IT manager at EMGS. "When we embarked on building a new cluster, the decision whether to continue using IBRIX Fusion as our file serving solution of choice was clear. Since 2005 IBRIX has demonstrated terrific performance in our high volume cluster and, most importantly, we have stable connections from all the nodes, enabling our always-on environment."

EMGS began focusing on electromagnetic (EM) imaging in 2002 with the commercialization of seabed logging. Using EM energy to locate offshore hydrocarbons is the first step in determining if a reservoir has potential and if so, whether further investments in extensive seismic surveys are warranted. The technology has enabled EMGS customers to dramatically improve their exploration efficiency in frontier and mature basins. The company's founders, Terje Eidesmo, Svein Ellingsrud, and Ståle Johansen, were recognized on March 10 by the Norwegian Petroleum Society for their contribution to petroleum geophysics.

"We are proud to have EMGS as a repeat customer, and to be deployed in one of Europe's most powerful supercomputing centers," said Milan Shetti, vice president of marketing and business development, IBRIX. "IBRIX Fusion breaks through the performance barrier for data-intensive applications that require stable high bandwidth and high I/O throughput to dramatically increase performance. In addition to providing additional headroom to process more sophisticated surveys, our product supports EMGS' continued growth by providing more computing power for CPU-intensive R&D activities."

Visit IBRIX at Storage Networking World, April 7-10, 2008, Booth #106 at the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort, Orlando.

About EMGS

EMGS is the market leader in deep electromagnetic (EM) imaging. The company launched the EM imaging industry in 2002 with the commercialization of seabed logging, a proven exploration method that uses EM energy to find offshore hydrocarbons without drilling wells. This proprietary and patented technology has been developed over the past 10 years, and its ability to indicate hydrocarbons directly is enabling EMGS' customers to dramatically improve their exploration performance in frontier and mature provinces. EMGS employs over 300 people from three main offices in Trondheim, Norway; Houston, Texas; and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The company operates the world's largest EM vessel fleet, and has conducted more than 300 surveys for many of the world's leading energy companies. Visit http://www.emgs.com for the latest news and in-depth information about EMGS and EM imaging technology.

About IBRIX, Inc.

IBRIX delivers extreme data storage scalability and performance that helps cluster, grid, and enterprise computing environments cost-effectively harness the unstructured data explosion. Using the IBRIX Fusion software suite, enterprises can independently grow capacity and increase throughput up to 50 times at the lowest cost and highest storage density possible. Internet service providers, content delivery networks, animation rendering and visual effects companies, and banks and hedge funds rely on IBRIX to increase application performance, enable storage scalability, simplify management, and reduce total cost of ownership. The award-winning IBRIX Fusion is available worldwide through leading technology partners including Dell, EMC, and HP. For more information, visit http://www.ibrix.com.

-----

Source: IBRIX, Inc.

Article Tools

Share & Save Options

Discussion

There are 0 discussion items posted.

Join the Discussion

You must be a registered user in order to comment on HPCwire stories.

Members enjoy:

	Access to Special Content, including Podcasts, Webcasts, and Whitepapers and more!
	Ability to take an active role in the discussions that are shaping the HPC technology discipline!
	Special offers available only to HPCwire members!

Become a Registered User Today!

Registered Users Log in Here to Comment

Email Address:	Password (case sensitive)

Remember me	Forgot Password?

RSS Feeds

Feeds by Topic

Feeds by Industry

Feeds by Content Type

Feature Articles

The Week in Review

UPenn adds third state to nanowire storage; and UIUC is named the first CUDA Center of Excellence. John West recaps those stories and more in our weekly wrap-up.
Read More...

IBM Looks to Tap Massive Data Streams

Modern civilization is positively drenched in data, some of which needs to be dealt with in real time to be of any value. Businesses, especially in the financial industry, have long recognized this, and have been building custom systems to collect, analyze, and react to information as it is captured. IBM thinks the time is right to generalize these approaches into a new field of computing -- and a new business -- it calls stream computing.
Read More...

Gravity Attracts a GigE HPC Cluster

Not all supercomputing rides on InfiniBand or proprietary interconnects. For technical applications that decompose neatly into loosely-coupled threads, a big cluster with vanilla Gigabit Ethernet does just fine. The top Ethernet system on the TOP500 list -- at number 58 -- is the new ATLAS cluster at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Germany.
Read More...

Read more HPCwire features...

Top Headlines

San Diego Gets Set for Storage Explosion

Jul 03 | Byte and Switch | The San Diego Supercomputer Center, which provides much of the core storage for the TeraGrid, is overhauling its 28 petabyte storage system to support tremendous data growth. Read more...

Intel's Gelsinger Predicts Intel Inside Everything

Jul 03 | ExtremeTech | Intel exec Pat Gelsinger said he sees the Intel Architecture permeating virtually every segment of computing, as the company's microprocessors expand into more and more cores. Read more...

A Massively Parallel Future

Jul 03 | Bangkok Post | The latest programmable GPUs are starting to steal application cycles from CPUs. Read more...

UCSD Researchers Identify Potential Bird Flu Drugs

Jul 02 | UC San Diego News Center | With the help of resources at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD scientists have isolated more than two dozen promising compounds from which new “designer drugs” might be developed to combat the avian flu virus. Read more...

Implementing Multi-Core: The Devil Is in the Detail

Jul 02 | Chip Design Magazine | Dual- and quad-core processors barely scratch the surface of the potential of multi-core systems. Read more...

Read more headlines...

Featured Whitepapers

New HPC White Paper: Star-P® Performance on IBM Linux Clusters

Jul 03 | | The paper explores some of the performance benefits of Star-P on commodity scalable systems such as IBM's Linux clusters based on multi-core Intel Xeon processors. The results demonstrate substantial performance gains with almost no programmer effort-roughly a 24-fold speed improvement for solving linear matrix equations. An overview of parallel computing with Star-P, a description of the performance test cases and description of IBM cluster configurations used for testing are also addressed.

Fast N-Body Simulation with CUDA C Compiler

Apr 17 | | An N-body simulation numerically approximates the evolution of a system of bodies in which each body continuously interacts with every other body, and it arises in many other computational science problems as well.

Improving Performance and Manageability for Seismic Processing and Imaging Applications with Parallel Storage

Jun 05 | | As pressure increases on the upstream seismic processing community to deliver ever-higher levels of productivity and efficiency, a new generation of storage solutions will be required that allow the maximum utilisation of high-performance computing (HPC) Linux cluster resources, together with the minimum of management overhead.

View the White Paper Library

Multimedia

Podcast: Interview with Ben Bennett of ClearSpeed Technology

Today, HPC organizations are requiring substantially more floating point performance to solve real-world problems. In this podcast, Ben Bennett, ClearSpeed General Manager, discusses how acceleration technology can improve the overall performance of standard x86-based systems...