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Success Story
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The AMD Opteron Processor Helps Marathon Improve Oil and Gas Production |
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In today’s fast paced world global oil companies have to make oil field drilling decisions faster with little room for error. To reach informed confident recommendations geologists and geophysicists have to analyze massive amount of data in a greatly reduced timeframe. Where months and weeks were previously acceptable, days and hours are now the norm. To get to decision points faster these experts rely on high performance hardware and complex software as key enablers.
Sophisticated software applications analyze raw data at an impressive rate, but the engine that enables it is the Information Technology (IT) infrastructure it runs on. Most notably servers, processors and interconnects are key to delivering the horsepower needed to cut time out of the analysis equation. In the past servers supporting business critical software of this nature were monolithic multiprocessor devices that were very costly to purchase, and own, not to mention manage. Over the past few years the form factor has evolved down to 1U’s and blades that are easy to deploy and manage. In addition these new cost effective servers are joined together by high throughput interconnects creating clusters that rival many supercomputers.
As major oil companies look to get to results faster they quickly realize their older symmetric multi-processor servers are inhibiting them, however replacing them with similar equipment is cost prohibitive. Appro offers a viable yet affordable solution that enables hundreds to thousands of servers and or processors to be working together. Engineered to handle the workload and designed with the highest throughput interconnects available Appro delivers a best of breed solution.
Many oil companies are transitioning to single and multi-processor Appro server clusters creating very powerful compute resources able handle the most demanding applications. With these kind of server solutions in place Appro customers are able to stay ahead of the competition. They can conduct complex seismic processing and imaging, visualization and interpretation of vast amounts of data in order to identify new wells for oil and gas production. Some Appro customer installations are running up to four times faster than their previous server solutions at one-third the cost.
Optimized clustered solutions like these from Appro are contributing to increased flexibility and security, helping realize exceptional efficiencies. Appro high performance clusters accelerate IT and business results enabling oil companies to make better informed decisions in less time.
For a full case study go to AMD.com site
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_566~115227,00.html
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Appro is focusing its product design to address the HPC cluster
market and key customer requirements including system management,
high availability and price/performance for HPC applications.
Appro has shown the ability to win highly sought-after, large-scale
HPC deals positioning the company to benefit from strong market
growth that IDC projects through 2012.
Earl
Joseph,
IDC Program Vice President, Technical Computing
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Customer Quote
“Appro not only offered us a cost effective solution but
they also improved our required technical specification through
better reliability, greater fault tolerance and redundancy as
well as more flexibility with regards to system scalability.”
Bob Bell,
Technical Director, ING Renault F1 Team
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