Panasas Parallel Storage Drives Completion of Seismic Processing Jobs Up to Six Times Faster for Geofizyka Krakow

London (ots/PRNewswire) -

- Geophysicists Enjoy Faster Results and Improved IT Center
Manageability

Panasas, Inc., the global leader in parallel storage solutions,
today announced that, through the deployment of a Panasas AS3000
parallel storage solution, Geofizyka Krakow is completing seismic
processing jobs up to six times faster. This performance boost
positively impacts its geophysicists' productivity by providing
faster results and the opportunity to run more job iterations for
improved imaging results. Ultimately the deployment of Panasas
parallel storage also benefits Geofizyka Krakow's Oil and Gas
customers' exploration efforts by providing faster project turnaround
with high-quality results that will help them locate energy reserves
faster.

Geofizyka Krakow, part of the Polish Oil & Gas Company (PGNiG),
helps major energy exploration and production companies successfully
explore hydrocarbon and geothermal water deposits, as well as monitor
natural resource reservoirs throughout the world. Established in
1956, it specialises in seismic data acquisition, processing and
interpretation, well logging and vertical seismic processing (VSP)
services from its headquarters in Krakow, Poland. The company's field
seismic crews regularly transfer large quantities of seismic survey
data to its IT Center. The data files can be tens or hundreds of GBs
(Gigabytes) in size. From there, various seismic processing software
algorithms, using WesternGeco's OMEGA SPS application, are applied in
order to form a resulting image file that represents geological
layers and structures. The data is then interpreted by the company's
geophysicists to help its customers locate new oil and gas reserves
or to maximise production from existing wells.

"Before we deployed the Panasas AS3000, I regularly received
calls from our geophysicists because they were frustrated with
waiting for the results of seismic processing jobs," said Leszek
Boryczko, computer systems manager at Geofizyka Krakow. "We ran
several independent seismic processing jobs simultaneously and we
found that a single I/O intensive job negatively affected all jobs
competing for the same storage array. Our previous storage solution
was comprised of two independent NFS-based, NAS solutions that
quickly became an I/O bottleneck. It became clear that we needed a
storage solution that could handle our diverse workload yet retain
management simplicity. Since deploying the Panasas AS3000 parallel
storage solution I've found our overall IT workflow to be much more
manageable. Furthermore, our geophysicists are no longer frustrated
as they are experiencing a much quicker turnaround on their seismic
processing jobs."

The Panasas parallel storage solution is based on the patented
object-based PanFS(TM) parallel file system that enables customers to
maximise application and workflow performance, while reducing the
total cost of ownership in the storage infrastructure. A single
global namespace dramatically simplifies storage management to
improve IT productivity and the ability to perform more work. By
offering Oil & Gas users a unified storage solution for seismic
processing, reservoir modeling, and seismic interpretation
applications, as well as primary and secondary storage solutions,
Panasas parallel storage is unique in the industry for its ability to
streamline overall workflow processes and improve data availability.

"Oil & gas customers across the globe are turning to parallel
storage solutions to solve the increasing workflow bottleneck posed
by NFS-based storage solutions," said Derek Burke, international
marketing director at Panasas Inc. "Panasas is the only
production-ready parallel storage solution that offers commercial
organisations the performance and the simplicity of management
required to gain a competitive edge through improved IT performance.
That's why Panasas is the leading storage supplier to the Oil & Gas
industry and is currently deployed at oil and gas companies in 30
countries across six continents."

About Panasas

Panasas, Inc., the global leader in parallel storage solutions,
helps commercial, government and academic organisations accelerate
their time to results leading to real world breakthroughs that
improve people's lives. Panasas' high-performance storage systems
enable customers to maximise the benefits of Linux clusters by
eliminating the storage bottleneck created by legacy network storage
technologies. The Panasas(R) ActiveStor Parallel Storage Clusters, in
conjunction with the ActiveScale(R) Operating Environment and
PanFS(TM) parallel file system, offer the most comprehensive
portfolio of storage solutions for High Performance Computing (HPC)
environments. Panasas is headquartered in Fremont, California. For
more information, please visit http://www.panasas.com.

Panasas, ActiveStor, DirectFLOW and PanFS are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Panasas, Inc. All other trademarks are the
property of their respective owners.

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