In this fast-paced global economy, digital innovation is challenging business leaders to invest in the latest IT solutions in order to perform faster, smarter, and more effectively than ever before. Particularly in the energy, oil, and gas (EOG) sector, companies are looking to high-performance, high-density technologies to transform their legacy IT environments, accelerate seismic processing, reservoir simulation, and 3D visualization, accurately predict the location of new energy reserves, and maintain competitive advantage in an increasingly aggressive marketplace.
IT SOLUTIONS FOR FASTER E&D
The ability to quickly locate and tap into new sources of energy is critical for EOG companies, so much so that IT departments are actively seeking new and more effective ways to streamline exploration and discovery (E&D). High performance computing (HPC) solutions are helping users deliver sophisticated visualization graphics to remote geoscientists and engineers as well as seismic processing imaging to oil exploration researchers at disparate sites.
With known oil and gas reserves being depleted and new resources growing increasingly difficult to find and recover, EOG companies are utilizing 3D imaging and simulation to operate as quickly and cost-effectively as possible. Seismic processing, interpretation, and reservoir simulations are key to achieve optimal business performance, saving time, and cutting costs.
The question is, how do businesses effectively leverage processing, interpretation, and simulation technology?
Remote visualization is empowering EOG companies to access, study, and share subsurface information from a variety of remote sites, workstation, and personal devices. These virtualization technologies provide seamless access to data within data centers, which allows users to analyze and interpret subsurface and reservoir data anywhere, anytime, while keeping information safe in the data center. This works to increase employee productivity, enhance collaboration, consolidate and protect sensitive data, and dramatically reduce IT spending. In some instances, remote visualization can increase E&D success by 30 to 50% and reduce operating costs by 5 to 25%.
INNOVATIONS FOR UPSTREAM SUCCESS
To capitalize on the full benefits of 3D imaging and simulations, EOG companies are investing in technologies to ensure the optimal speed, accuracy, and quality of virtualized visualization capabilities.
GPU computing boosts throughput for visualization and data-heavy computation, which helps users visualize terabytes of data in real time. In fact, in an experiment conducted by Shell, harnessing NVIDIA GPUs allowed the company to process data in real time and automatically detect subsurface faults from seismic traces, ramping up E&D by 40%.
Backed by powerful and cost-effective HPC server platforms, energy researchers can use NVIDIA GPU accelerators along with NVIDIA Quadro Virtual Datacenter Workstation (vDWS) technology to enhance remote visualization and maximize E&D efforts. This empowers businesses across the EOG sector to leverage 3D imaging and simulations on a variety of endpoints, improve the speed and accuracy of energy E&D, reduce operating costs, and expand business sustainability.
As the need for processing, simulation, and visualization solutions evolves, companies are rapidly adopting fast, flexible, and dependable technologies to empower a disparate workforce with real-time insights. Those who do will have the ability to not only drive innovation and business growth, but effectively compete in an ever-evolving industry.
Together, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and NVIDIA provide breakthrough levels of capability and productivity by harnessing the power of high performance remote visualization. To learn more about how advanced simulations are transforming the EOG sector, I invite you to follow me on Twitter at @Bill_Mannel. And visit @HPE_HPC and @NVIDIAVirt for the latest news and updates in remote visualization and GPU computing.