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August 14, 2006
Terralliance Selects UD for Oil & Gas Grid
Terralliance says its newly built grid will run proprietary software applications as part of a process that combines traditional exploration techniques with new technologies and approaches. This methodology invented by Terralliance 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," said 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."
In July, United Devices services engineers installed the PC Grid solution on an Opteron system server in just a half day. PC Grid solution is built on UD's Grid MP platform, the company's infrastructure for implementing and managing complex enterprise grids. PC Grid solution is increasingly being adopted in the oil and gas industry with numerous engagements with producers and services companies.
"Our Grid technologies are all about providing the computing power, speed and efficiency that let businesses focus on expanding their innovation," said Jikku Venkat, chief technology officer at United Devices. "We're excited to be working with a pacesetter in the oil and gas industry like Terralliance. Our new oiland gas business unit is gaining significant traction and has established a number of key partnerships, reflecting the great potential for Grid technologies we see in this sector."
The Terralliance grid consists of a heterogeneous collection of tightly coupled rack mounted servers and workstations together with fast engineering workstations located throughout the Boulder office. According to Prentice, "Since installing PC Grid, overall throughput for computational intensive jobs has increased by between 400 percent and 500 percent due to a combination of the ease of job submission and the superb load balancing."
In addition, he 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."
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