Parallel computing storage services firm Panasas has announced that the Dutch geo-services firm Fugro has boosted its seismic application performance by five times since implementing Panasas's ActiveStor parallel storage solution.
According to Panasas, its parallel storage solution allows Fugro to quickly deliver vital geophysical data to the company’s exploration and production customers, thereby speeding up the discovery and retrieval of oil and gas reserves.
Panasas said that the processing turnaround time and the quality of raw data are crucial elements in helping Fugro and its oil and gas customers create a business advantage.
This deployment of Panasas parallel storage has improved the performance of Fugro’s Linux clusters, allowing the data-intensive applications to run faster, and leading to faster discovery, development and ultimate delivery of oil and gas to the global market, said Panasas.
Matthew Grey, Unix-Linux systems manager at Fugro, said: Currently, we’re using Panasas storage for a survey project of the entire Gulf of Mexico and it requires the collection and manipulation of a tremendous amount of data. By switching to Panasas storage, we have boosted our performance by a factor of five, allowing multiple users working on the same project to access the cluster without response time degradation.