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Innovation, Storage Performance, and Capacity for Seismic Processing & Reservoir Extraction Analysis

Across the industry, upstream petroleum exploration produces petabytes of new, unique seismic data on a daily basis. This data is relayed from land and sea acquisition operations to seismic processing data centers which must in-turn analyze and interpret the acquired 3D and 4D seismic datasets to determine if the surveyed areas possess sub-surface oil or gas deposits.

As data sets grow larger, seismic processing applications have been parallelized to benefit from low-cost commodity computing architectures. While the allure of combining hundred (or thousands) of inexpensive commodity computers is strong, these clustered computers present a new challenge for seismic processing IT managers – the need for scalable storage performance.

In addition to growing storage systems to meet the needs of evolving application scaling, the enormous growth of raw and processed seismic data requires a re-think in data management and data archiving strategies.

The DataDirect Networks S2A storage system integrates into seismic processing computation environments to solve two common business challenges:

Scalable, Parallel Storage for Seismic Data Analysis:

The high-performance characteristics of the S2A, featuring DirectRAID, make the platform a uniquely scalable storage foundation for parallel and shared file systems suited for scalable seismic processing applications with performance up to and beyond 250GB/s. An open storage platform, the S2A has been highly optimized to work with a number of storage technologies and file systems to surpass application-scaling bottlenecks associated with traditional NAS and SAN storage.

To learn more about DataDirect Networks' online storage offerings for seismic data processing:

• S2A Information
• S2A High Performance Cluster Storage Solution
• S2A Clustered NAS Solution
• Storage Application Partners

Cost-Effective Capacity-Optimized Storage for Seismic Data Backup and Archiving:

With the ability to house 1,200 SATA disk drives in two racks, the DataDirect Networks S2A9900 StorageScaler offers superior density, cost-effectiveness, and enterprise storage safeguards to ensure optimized backup-restore responsiveness while reducing total cost of information ownership.

Dense SATA storage minimizes the facilities and human resources needed to manage large data environments and integrates seamlessly into disk-to-disk, archive, and VTL environments. Superior to tape-based storage in almost every way, S2A capacity-optimized storage delivers the highest levels of archive, backup, and disaster recovery performance.

To learn more about DataDirect Networks' online storage offerings for seismic data processing:

• S2A Information
• Backup Storage with the S2A
• Data Lifecycle Management with the S2A
• S2A Virtual Tape Library Solution

S2A Storage for Seismic Processing Applications DataDirect Networks S2A9900 StorageScaler System Sustained performance up to 6 GB/s in both reads and writes 8 Host Interfaces (FC-4, FC-8 or 4x DDR Infiniband Host Interface) Up to 1,200TB of total SATA Capacity  4U 60-drive high-density disk enclosures allow for intermixing of high performance SAS and high capacity SATA drives SATAssure validates data integrity, full performance in degraded mode, and fast rebuild rates SNMP, GUI, Telnet, and API management