High-performance computing applications enable engineers and scientists to create advanced analytical models for seismic processing, reservoir simulation, computational fluid dynamics and supply chain optimization. Better models lead to more accurate predictions, accelerating time to oil and improving business results.
Microsoft's high-performance computing operating system delivers the computational performance required to iterate and improve models, leading to more accurate predictions, better decisions and ultimately better results.
While the lower cost of hardware has made high-performance computing affordable throughout the industry, most organizations have yet to realize its full potential.
That's because users are burdened with lag times, unintuitive job setup and administration, and other tedious tasks that deter usage of high-performance applications, thereby delaying teams from making crucial decisions. Also, access to high-performance computing resources is only available from the office, posing further obstacles for today's mobile workforce. If high-performance computing is too cumbersome to use workers may not fully leverage it to develop optimal solutions.
Meanwhile, as many experts approach retirement, the complexity of the business is increasing, leading to more computationally complex projects to execute while training younger engineers. Not only are businesses challenged to do more with fewer workers, but the industry needs to capture and share the experts' knowledge before they retire.
Accessibility is Key
Geologists, geophysicist and engineers require seamless access to high-performance computing applications directly from their workstations or mobile devices - in the office, at a job site, or anywhere in between.
What's more, asset teams and partners must be able to collaborate across traditional data and application boundaries, as well as corporate, geographic and generational boundaries. Equally important, solutions must be secure and reliable to ensure confidentiality and protect intellectual property, and easy to deploy and manage.
Microsoft and its Partners Can Help
The industry's leading high-performance application developers are partnering with Microsoft to deliver integrated visualization, simulation and optimization solutions.
Integrating high-performance computing with Microsoft Office collaboration technologies transforms a traditionally disjointed process and architecture into an integrated and collaborative environment. From submitting jobs, managing application licenses, tracking cluster hardware availability, to assigning security and authentication, all administrative tasks can be managed by an orchestration layer, freeing up end users from the complexity of traditional high-performance computing, improving productivity and time to results.
Microsoft's high-performance computing operating system delivers the computational performance required to iterate and improve models, leading to more accurate predictions, better decisions and ultimately better results.
With consistent operating systems for both high-performance computing and other corporate IT platforms, your system administrators can leverage knowledge for more efficient and cost-effective IT management.
HPC Anywhere
The Microsoft platform for high-performance computing delivers a better and more productive experience to both IT managers and system administrators, as well as to end users, bringing collaboration and mobility to high-performance computing for the oil and gas industry.
With Microsoft technologies, users no longer have to worry about complex, time-consuming administrative setup or performance management. High-performance computing solutions are more accessible and more usable, empowering workers beyond the high-performance computing "power-users" to achieve more in less time - which speeds time to insight and helps more people to make better decisions faster.
Your IT staff and application developers will also appreciate the ease of development, implementation and management of an environment that is familiar and intuitive throughout the enterprise.
With supply struggling to meet demand, the world needs to find and produce hydrocarbons with increasing urgency. When administrative and IT complexity limit user access to high-performance computing applications, it detracts oil and gas workers from solving domain challenges and wastes valuable time. Microsoft and its leading partners deliver high-performance computing solutions that seamlessly integrate petro-technical and office applications, making high-performance computing available to everyone who needs it-anytime, anywhere.
Key Benefits
Simplify deployment, administration, security and management over traditional high-performance computing environments
Facilitate rapid high-performance application development
Lower total cost of ownership and proven return on investment through simplified deployment, provisioning and administration
Set the high-performance computing platform as a foundation for broader secure mobile and real-time collaboration for anytime, anywhere access
Improve high-performance application usability through Web-based interface and global language support
Enable secure mobile access and real-time collaboration among remote experts and asset teams
