SEISMIC VISUALISATION & HARD ROCK EXPLORATION

Improved productivity and time efficiency with Lustre Parallel Processing

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About Our Customer

A leading international seismic services company, employing a unique combination of novel data acquisition equipment and innovative data processing algorithms to provide end-to-end, high definition seismic services focusing on hard rock exploration. The company stands to provide the most significant geological imaging solutions world-wide and ensure miners have high quality geological information. They required an upgrade and add additional systems to further boost business operation through increased performance and storage.



Highlights

  • - Required a refresh of their technology and additional systems to boost productivity and efficiency of their highly intensive data-driven workloads. They also required significant data processing and performance demands relative to the demand of business operations in the industry
  • - Designed an optimal solution based on the latest technology from Supermicro and Western Digital, through a high-performance data-processing environment with reduced costs relative to Tier 1 distributors
  • - We satisfied the company’s main requirements of high-performance computing through a solution based on parallel processing. This solution was able to improve the time taken to process data workloads, making jobs more productive, efficient and quicker
  • Key Benefits

  • Jobs that took 2 weeks, now takes 3-4 days
  • Reduction in CAPEX
  • Disaster recovery and high availability with build
  • Challenges

    The company looked to refresh their technology and add additional systems to boost productivity and efficiency of their highly intensive data-driven workloads. The company required significant data processing and performance demands relative to the demand of business operations in the industry. The data processing was significantly time-intensive taking up to 24 hours. The main driving factors for the company was high performance, high quality and reliable support such as disaster recovery and availability with minimal downtime, due to the duration and scale of their business operations. They highly valued a solution that improved business continuity and business operation. As the company handles highly dense data internationally and domestically, the production and back-up of data must be accessible and responsive for any given real-life situation.



    How We Helped

    The company had previously experienced the quality and reliability of Supermicro infrastructure through previous integration of their systems before reaching out to us. Therefore, as Supermicro’s leading reseller in Australia, we were able to understand their queries and requirements. This allowed our expert team to design an optimal solution based on the latest technology from Supermicro and Western Digital, through a high-performance data-processing environment with reduced costs relative to Tier 1 distributors. At DiGiCOR, we architected a solution based upon the budgetary and technical specifications the company had. Throughout the process, we upheld a high level of customer service, quality control and testing, and competitive pricing.




    Results

    It is important for us to understand our client’s business objectives and situation, thus allowing us to recommend the company to commit towards a leasing proposal for their solution. In consideration of their high valued business structure, leasing the solution was the most cost-effective outcome, with the overall reduction to CAPEX. With this, we extended their systems from 8 servers to 14 compute nodes as 3 production servers and 1 back-up server, giving them a high-density solution that saved space, improved performance and considered redundancy.

    We satisfied the company’s main requirements of high-performance computing through a solution based on parallel processing. The Western Digital JBOD was set up as an HPC caching server compatible as a cluster parallel storage, substantially improving the write speed and serve files faster. Overall, this solution was able to improve the time taken to process data workloads, making jobs more productive, efficient and quicker. As a result, productivity and efficiency of workloads has more than doubled, with jobs that used to take a few weeks, now taking a few days. As a niche, small business, we assisted the company with our high-quality solutions architected from our expert technicians and internal team and the ease of mind from support of disaster recovery and back-up.



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