-
-
CNPC Chuanqing Drilling Engineering accelerates with a single volume storage
Dell EMC storage enables CNPC Chuanqing Drilling Engineering to meet data-intensive demands by consolidating data to accelerate its complex, mission-critical workflows
-
Customer
CNPC Chuanqing Drilling Engineering
-
Industry
Oil and gas
-
Offerings
Dell EMC Isilon X series scale-out storage, Dell EMC Isilon SmartQuotas, Dell EMC Isilon SmartDedupe
-
Key Challenges
Meet massive growth in data, scale capacity and performance, share data sets, reduce data analysis and management complexity
-
Outcomes
Delivers single volume, scalable storage for all seismic data sets, simplifies environment, accelerates workflows and analysis
-
-
Challenges
Massive data growth requires scalable performance and capacity
A subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corporation, Geophysical Prospecting Company of CNPC, Chuanqing Drilling Engineering runs data-intensive, high performance computing (CPC) environments for seismic explorations within the China and global oil and gas industry. The research center within the organization specializes in the processing and analysis of seismic data.
Chuanqing Drilling Engineering needs to process, analyze, and store vast quantities of exploration and production data, and make it accessible to geoscientists and engineers, as well as run a number of industry applications for seismic processing and data analysis. While Chuanqing Drilling Engineering had deployed a number of SAN storage systems to handle massive growth in data from its exploration activities, the research center needed to scale both capacity and performance to support the high performance calculations required, and wanted shared access to the seismic data sets for its researchers. Chuanqing Drilling Engineering looked to migrate its seismic data to a single volume of storage.
-
Our Approach
Consolidates all data sets onto a single volume storage
Chuanqing Drilling Engineering partnered with Dell EMC to implement Dell EMC® Isilon® scale-out NAS as the storage platform for the research center. The solution is a single cluster comprising Dell EMC Isilon X410 with 23 nodes, providing capacity that can be scaled up to 1.6 petabytes.
The Dell EMC Isilon solution includes Dell EMC Isilon SmartQuotas, which enables the research center to allocate space to particular divisions and users according to workflows and demand. To ensure the cost-effective management of its massive data demands, Dell EMC Isilon SmartDedupe is helping the center to maximize the storage efficiency of the cluster by eliminating duplicates.
-
-
-
“The improved performance, ability to allocate storage to different users and divisions, and the ease in which we can quickly scale on demand, are all features of EMC Isilon that are contributing to the productivity of our researchers and scientists.”
CNPC Chuanqing Drilling Engineering
-
-
Outcomes
Accelerating workflows with a single volume
Finding the right platform to collect, analyze, and drive decisions in an efficient, agile way is critical to oil and gas companies. In migrating from SAN storage to Dell EMC Isilon X410 scale-out NAS, Chuanqing Drilling Engineering has the ability to consolidate and shared all data while scaling up to 50 petabytes in a single volume. The solution meets the data-intensive demands of the oil and gas industry, helping the research center to accelerate complex, mission-critical workflows and run its HPC environments.
Improving productivity and accessibility
The research center will use Dell EMC Isilon scale-out storage throughout the exploration and production workflows involving interpretation and modeling. It has eliminated the need to manage data from disparate storage solutions. Now users have a broadly accessible shared pool of data, increasing productivity and making data accessible across the center.
Delivering cost and management efficiencies
The research center is benefiting from the ease in which Dell EMC storage can be scaled and different quotas can be allocated to workflows and divisions within the company. This has resulted in both management and cost efficiencies in meeting its storage requirements, achieving an estimated 33 percent reduction in costs.