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20Gb/s InfiniBand Provides Faster, Complex Subsurfacing Models
Oil and gas companies invest millions of dollars in infrastructure in the field well before drilling even begins. To reduce the uncertainty in drilling and production scenarios, geologists and engineers invest in sophisticated and complex simulations, such as 3D models representing the fluid and rock properties of the subsurface, and 4D modeling technology that adds a time element.
By taking numerous surveys and overlaying them with time-dependent information, well logs and production histories, geophysical scientists are processing as much as 100 terabytes of data at one time. This data is moved through a processing workflow that includes seismic analysis, modeling and visualization.
Figure: Simulated resevoir model Figure: Surface-to-subsurface simulation
Compute Power is Critical to Efficiency and Success
High-levels of detail for the various simulations are required for the accuracy of oil and gas production rate estimates, such as realistic simulations of the geology and the flow of fluid through the rock. In a global competitive market, such as oil and gas, where the ability to locate extractable wells is decreasing, creating complicated subsurface models increases the odds of success. Performing simulated analysis on large reservoir models requires HPC clusters compute power and high-speed storage systems.
Efficient HPC clusters require high-bandwidth, low-latency, low CPU overhead, network flexibility scalability in order to maintain a balanced system and to provide the needed compute power for the oil and gas simulations. Low-performance interconnect solutions, or lack of interconnect hardware capabilities will result in degraded system performance and lack of capability to maintain the high load of reservoir simulations.
World-Class Performance
Mellanox’s 20Gb/s InfiniBand is designed for multi-core cluster environments and can efficiently handle multiple data streams simultaneously and at the same time guarantee fast and reliable data transfer for each of the streams. With latency as low as 1usec, Mellanox InfiniBand enables scalable fast communication among the processing units. Furthermore, InfiniBand based storage solutions enable fast and high-bandwidth storage access for the terabytes of the needed data.
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