C a s e s t u d y
Revolutionizing Reservoir Simulation With SilverStorm
interconnect. We found the transport performance to be impressive with the High
Performance Linpack (HPL) results over 82%. We were especially pleased with the
performance handling large packets. In addition, when we ran into problems with
the MPI layer of our application, silverstorm quickly helped us resolve the issue
to get us up and running,” reported the customer. today, the silverstorm solution
is operational, supporting over 120 Itanium-2 nodes and is expected to double by
the end of the year. they have already started migrating other simulations over to
their high performance cluster to take advantage of the flexibility, scalability, and
efficiency of the environment.
The Customer Benefit
this leading oil and gas company has had the silverstorm solution opera-
tional in their data center since september 2004. simulations are finishing in
one-half to one-third the time they used to, providing them with three times
the computational throughput. they are already realizing business growth directly
associated with the performance improvements they are experiencing with the
silverstorm solution. this oil and gas company, who never invests in technology
without the expectation of significant return on their investment, expects a three
year ROI exceeding 150%.
Conclusion
silverstorm’s professional, dedicated and expert staff supplied this company with
a working solution in less than two days—even resolving problems in non-silver-
storm software. silverstorm’s high performance solution now provides this oil and
gas giant the ability to simulate their oil and gas reserves on a semi-realtime ba-
sis, thereby significantly improving working efficiency and improving their business
performance. “We will definitely look to silverstorm for efficient, high performance
solutions in the future.”
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