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Discover Scalable NAS Clusters for Oil and Gas Industries

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Flexible, scalable and highly available file serving solutions optimized for specialized industries using industry-standard servers and storage.

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Overview

Overview
The processing of seismic data for oil exploration requires the ability to handle huge data sets—up to 100s of TB's per data set—and high-bandwidth throughput to serve the HPC compute cluster. The faster this process can be finished the quicker the process moves into visualization and the sooner a drilling decision can be made. The combination of HP EFS Clustered Gateway built on HP PolyServe software, and fast storage offers a high performance fault-tolerant file serving solution built on a single shared data architecture.

The EFS Clustered Gateway offers a single shared data pool for ease to eliminate replication of data for load balancing or various workloads through the seismic data processing chain. With 128TB file systems, high data throughput without data manipulation and integrated high availability, HP’s Clustered Gateway provides the best reduction in processing and handling time at the best price point. Many of the top oil companies are reaping the benefits of higher performance at lower cost through scalable NAS clusters.

Features and Benefits
  • The HP Difference: The Clustered Gateway software contains a symmetrical cluster file system and file serving architecture for a completely scalable and reliable NAS system. So there is no single server for metadata or lock management, removing any performance bottlenecks and providing linear performance scaling beyond 2GB/s.
  • HP PolyServe Enables:
    • Online performance growth by incrementally adding servers or storage as needed.
    • NFS, CIFS or use of PolyServe's PSFS file system for custom applications.
    • Thousands of compute nodes accessing petabytes of data.
    • Eliminates need for data replication or segmentation for load/performance balancing.
  • Industry Standard: HP PolyServe Matrix Server runs on Linux from RedHat, Novell SuSE, and Windows operating systems. It is compatible with virtually all storage and networking equipment that use industry standard protocols.
  • Customer Results:
    • Achieve over 2GB/s of I/O throughput.
    • Eliminate hotspots and I/O bottlenecks.
    • Avoid vendor locking using industry standard servers and storage.
    • Manage and backup the storage as a single resource.
    • Enjoy favorable price/performance and an 8:1 pure performance advantage over popular NAS filers.
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