Oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) firm Terralliance Technologies has selected United Devices' PC Grid solution as the infrastructure for its high-performance computing grid.
Terralliance says its new grid will run proprietary software applications as part of a process that combines traditional exploration techniques with new technologies and approaches. Terralliance says its methodology "has already produced E&P results dramatically above the industry norm."
"Our advanced methods reduce exploration and monetary risk and have resulted in significant improvements in exploration success," stated John Prentice, director of geophysics science at Terralliance. "Our grid will put even more power behind this approach. United Devices got it up and running quickly, including putting together an excellent script for our principal application that we can use for production now and as a template for the future."
Last month, United Devices services engineers installed the PC Grid solution on an Opteron system server in half a day. PC Grid solution is built on UD's Grid MP platform.
The Terralliance Grid consists of a heterogeneous collection of tightly coupled rack mounted servers and workstations with fast engineering workstations located throughout the Boulder office. According to Prentice, since installing the grid, overall throughput for computational intensive jobs has increased by 400% to 500% due to ease of job submission and load balancing.
The company also gives UD high marks for scalability.
Prentice said Terralliance plans to significantly expand the compute power of the Boulder office over the next year. "The scalability and ease of installing new agents were major factors in our choosing this software as our grid solution," he said.
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