Oil & Gas

Oil & Gas companies model and simulate enormous, complex subsurface datasets to help them locate, extract, and process oil deposits quickly and cost effectively. These applications rely on the sheer speed of clustered computers which, in turn, depend on fast low-latency interconnects to ensure sustained, high performance across many nodes.

Through a unique, patented architecture, NetEffect 10Gb accelerated Ethernet adapters achieve the predictable, sustained low latency vital to quick response in Oil & Gas applications:

• RDMA acceleration delivers wall-clock times equal to or better than InfiniBand and latency < 6 µsec
• Saturated wire speed (bandwidth > 18 Gbps, bi-directional) ensures predictable, sustained results with large datasets even under multi-core, multi-processor loads of any message size
• Offloading nearly all network overhead achieves up to double the CPU availability (95%) for application processing and message throughput over 3 million messages/second
• Higher compute densities facilitated through low power consumption – one-third the power of alternatives
• A single, self-provisioning adapter supports all data center traffic - clustering, networking, and storage
• Takes full advantage of the benefits of Ethernet ubiquity to reduce cost and simplify infrastructure complexity
• Applications tested and validated through partner collaboration, including:
  - Landmark reservoir simulation
  - ModViz 3D visualization
  - Fluent computational fluid dynamics (CFD)