Norwegian EMGS Adds More Ibrix Fusion File Serving Software

IBRIX Inc., in scalable file serving solutions, announced that Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS), the market
leaders in deep electromagnetic imaging, has purchased additional IBRIX
Fusion file serving software to support its newest compute cluster,
named Aurora, located in Trondheim, Norway. 

EMGS
provides valuable information that helps exploration professionals
locate commercial hydrocarbon reservoirs and rank prospects for
drilling, reducing the risks and costs of drilling dry holes.

The
IBRIX solution is integrated with 1,300 new Dell PowerEdge 1955
dual-core servers in addition to their 530 original dual processor
Dell PowerEdge 1855 servers and 106 terabytes of EMC CX3-40 storage
in 4 EMC CX3-40 arrays. The solution enables EMGS to scale its
business and gain a competitive advantage by reducing the time needed
to deliver sophisticated information products to energy companies.  
 
EMGS
first deployed IBRIX in 2005 in its original data center. At that time,
EMGS was processing ocean floor data from two ships and supporting
scientists in one location. Since then, EMGS has opened four additional
offices and grew its fleet to five vessels—soon
to be six. The Aurora cluster supports geologists and geophysicists in
all five locations performing three times more surveys than before. In
addition, as surveys become more sophisticated with the use of 3D
inversion and grid modeling, the computational complexity increases
tremendously.

“The continued growth of EMGS places a severe
demand on our computing resources, increasing the number of jobs we
process from 300 to 15,000+,” said Helge Stranden, IT manager at EMGS.
“When we embarked on building a new cluster, the decision whether to
continue using IBRIX Fusion as our file serving solution of choice was
clear. Since 2005 IBRIX has demonstrated terrific performance in our
high volume cluster and, most importantly, we have stable connections
from all the nodes, enabling our always-on environment.”

EMGS began focusing on electromagnetic (EM) imaging in 2002 with the commercialization of seabed logging.
Using EM energy to locate offshore hydrocarbons is the first step in
determining if a reservoir has potential and if so, whether further
investments in extensive seismic surveys are warranted. The technology
has enabled EMGS customers to dramatically improve their exploration
efficiency in frontier and mature basins. The company’s founders, Terje
Eidesmo, Svein Ellingsrud, and Ståle Johansen, were recognized on March
10 by the Norwegian Petroleum Society for their contribution to
petroleum geophysics.

“We are proud to have EMGS as a repeat
customer, and to be deployed in one of Europe’s most powerful
supercomputing centers,” said Milan Shetti, Vice President of Marketing
and Business Development, IBRIX. “IBRIX Fusion breaks through the
performance barrier for data-intensive applications that require stable
high bandwidth and high I/O throughput to dramatically increase
performance. In addition to providing additional headroom to process
more sophisticated surveys, our product supports EMGS’ continued growth
by providing more computing power for CPU-intensive R&D activities.”

Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS)

IBRIX, Inc.