TyumenNIIgiprogaz finds the new fields using the failsafe hardware and software system implemented by HOST Group

Implementation otkazo-and a disaster-proof network attached storage and the high-performance computing platform allowed TyumenNIIgiprogaz to increase the capacity of the computer system by 4 times and to provide the high speed of the solution of the most difficult resource-intensive tasks in the field of seismic exploration and opening of new fields.

About the Customer

Region: Tyumen

Sphere of activity: Scientific and project providing in the field of the oil and gas industry

The scientific project industrial complex "TyumenNIIgiprogaz" (NPPK "TNGG") is affiliated enterprise JSC Gazprom, is formed in 1966. Its distinctive feature is the finished cycle of scientific and project and also industrial ensuring mastering of fields from seismic exploration before production and commissioning. Now the organization is engaged in scientific and project ensuring development of the enterprises of the gas industry in Western and Eastern Siberia, promotes reduction of terms of mastering of fields due to complex approach and implementation of the innovative solutions. Only in 2010 the stock gain according to the recommendations of TyumenNIIgiprogaz made about a third of the general gain on JSC Gazprom.

IT environment status prior to the beginning of the project

Lack of the failsafe centralized data warehouse of large volume. Need for more productive and reliable computing system of processing of seismoprospecting data.

Situation

"The exit to new fields, especially in areas of Eastern Siberia, demanded from TyumenNIIgiprogaz of new methods and more perfect technologies, in particular, implementation of the new algorithms allowing to process the acquired information. The problems existing by then in IT infrastructure - the absence of the centralized storage of seismic data, low degree of fault tolerance, capacity of computing systems of processing of seismicity - significantly slowed down development of activity in this area", - comments on a situation before the Sergey Nikolaevich Mikhiyenkov project, the general director assistant on ICT of TyumenNIIgiprogaz.

Solution

Based on collected information and infrastructure, specialists of HOST Group proposed two solutions of the tasks existing at TyumenNIIgiprogaz based on a computing cluster, servers and storage systems.

The first technical solution proposed by HOST Group consisted in implementation of the scaled otkazo-and disaster-proof network storage distributed between two platforms with asynchronous replication on IP channels. Two servers of IBM h3550 M3 under control of a specialized software of Symantec FileStore and storage system of EMC CX4-120 became a basis of each platform. Such architecture provided transparent and simple scaling taking into account the growing requirements of the organization for performance and capacity and also necessary functionality on management and protection placed on an information warehouse.

Along with the first solution, specialists of HOST Group implemented the second – on creation of the high-performance computing platform. Eight scalable IBM x3950 M2 servers and two storage systems of EMC SH4-240 intended for placement of the processed information were a part of the computer system. The remote replication implemented between disk arrays provided the high level of safety of information. For local replication of data, protection against logical errors are used "instant pictures" and clones of volumes according to backup policy.

"Each technical solution of HOST Group was proposed together with implementation and the subsequent its maintenance that allowed us to bring quickly enough systems into operation, and exempted from the cares connected with their further functioning", - Alexander Gennadiyevich Shalamov, the head of department of the UNIX-SYSTEMS of TyumenNIIgiprogaz notes.

Solution components Hardware and software system:

IBM x3950 M2 servers. Servers of IBM h3550 M3. Storage systems of EMC CX4-120. Storage systems of EMC CX4-240. Cluster Symantec FileStore software.

Result

The solutions created within the complex project of HOST Group provide essential increase in productivity of the computing system which allowed TyumenNIIgiprogaz to carry out quicker calculations of seismoprospecting data and to use more difficult models of processing. Reliability of the implemented systems, on expert evaluations, was 99.999%

"Capacity of the computing system of TyumenNIIgiprogaz increased on average by 4 times. Thanks to it, we could reduce significantly computation time of the standard tasks necessary for seismic exploration data analysis. There was a possibility of creation and approbation of new algorithms that in the future will allow to accelerate and reduce the price of process of opening of new fields", - Alexander Dmitrievich Avramenko the Head of the laboratory of profound processing of seismoprospecting data of TyumenNIIgiprogaz comments.

"We hope that the created computing cluster, the new server platform and a centralized system of storage with function of mutual reservation will become reliable tools in the analysis of the new and existing fields", - Vlad Alekseev, the commercial director of HOST Group sums up the project results.

Advantages of the solution Increase in productivity of the computing system by 5-6 times. High processing speed of tasks. Minimization of probability of failures, ensuring safety of data. The centralized unified platform for failsafe work. Level of reliability is 99.999%. Flexible scaling.