Schlumberger LiveQuest:

Application Delivery Platform and

Collaboration Solution

Mario Dean

LiveQuest Product Champion

GTC May 2012

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Why are companies pursuing centralized petrotechnical

infrastructure?

Data delivery to petrotechnical applications

Increase collaborative workflows

IT spend in controlled environment

Better data security

Remote working Easier backup/recovery

Faster petrotechnical application updates / deployment

LiveQuest – The SIS Application Delivery Platform

For customers pursuing an internally

centralized petro technical infrastructure

strategy, LiveQuest provides:

• Industry leading remote visualization

technology purpose-built for petro

technical applications (Specially

Petrel)

• Powerful and intuitive web-based

administration tools

• One click collaboration features with

shared control

Components of the Application Delivery Platform

Available end

2012

Remote

Visualization

Connection

Broker

Orchestration

Engine Hypervisor

Engine

Deploy Petrel in

the datacenter

User and group

management

Application

management

Load balancing

and collaboration

Flexible

petrotechnical

infrastructure

Full flexibility for

petrotechnical

applications in

virtual machines

Deployment of Petrel from the data center

Optimize exploration and development operations

Petrel E&P Software Platform helps increase reservoir

performance by improving asset team productivity.

Geophysicists, geologists, and reservoir engineers can

develop collaborative workflows and integrate operations to

streamline processes.

Benefits

Unify workflows for E&P teams—Eliminate the gaps in

traditional systems that require handoffs from one technical

domain to the next using Petrel model-centric workflows in a

shared earth model.

Manage risk and uncertainty—Easily test multiple scenarios,

analyze risk and uncertainty, capture data relationships and

parameters to perform rapid updates as new data arrives, and

perform detailed simulation history matching.

Enable knowledge management and best practices—

Reduce workflow learning curves by capturing best practices

via the Workflow Editor, providing quick access to preferred

workflows and increasing ease of use through intuitive and

repeatable workflows.

Petrel E&P Software Platform

LiveQuest – Robust Petrotechnical connection broker

Web Portal / Broker

• Links to corporate

authentication

• Acts as user and

administrator portal

Dedicated application

servers

• High performance

(Petrel)

• One-to-one connection

• Windows 7

Shared application servers

• Modest performance

• One-to-many

connections

• Windows or Linux

• 3D or 2D

ThinAnywhere – 2D and 3D applications

Current Remote Visualization Technologies

Supports both Dedicated and Shared Application Server

Infrastructure

Dedicated Workstation or Server Per User

• Non-graphic intensive

workflows (Geology and RE)

• Reduced infrastructure TCO

Shared Infrastructure - Multiuser

• Superior performance and

compatibility

• Support graphic intensive 3D

workflows (Geophysics)

ThinAnywhere Server for Linux (Shared Infrastructure)

Remote users

LQ client 1

Visualization Servers

LQ client 2

NVidia GPU

TAw session 2

TAw session 1

LQ agent

Windows

Application

NVidia GPU

ThinAnywhere RDP plug-in

LQ agent

Linux

Application

LQ agent

Application Servers

Application images directly sent to the client

SSH /

RSH

RDP IIP

IIP

ThinAnywhere Server for Windows (Dedicated

infrastructure) Windows Application Servers

Remote users

LQ client 1

LQ client 2

Windows

Application

NVidia GPU

TAw SfW

Windows

Application

NVidia GPU

TAw SfW

Technology comparison (Frames per second)

Technology comparison (Network Utilization)

Technology comparison (Frames per second in Low bandwidth – 10Mbps)

ThinAnywhere Server for Windows – enabling remote

visualization for Petrel

Superior bandwidth

footprint

(~6Mbps)

Superior latency

toleration

(140ms)

0 10 20 30 40 50

DCV

RGS

TAw Legacy

TAw S4W

Bandwidth (Mbps)

Uncompromising performance, with

superior video compression technology

for petrotechnical applications

24” monitor, Petrel 2010, spinning model

LiveQuest connection broker capabilities

Multi-OS Support

Web-based administration

One click collaboration

LiveQuest Web based Administration

LiveQuest high level design

Web portal /

Broker

Corporate

VPN

Internet

Mobile users

Local users

Remote (WAN)

users

Dedicated app servers

Shared app servers

Centralized storage

arrays

Future of Application Delivery Platform

Visualization

• Continue to pursue superior Petro technical application performance

• Incorporate new graphics technology (New Monterey SDK, Kepler, CUDA)

Orchestration

• Dynamic allocation of physical hardware

• Increase flexibility of petro technical infrastructure

Virtualization

• Hypervisor capabilities to break physical machine barriers

• Conceptual only at this stage

Key features of the Orchestration Engine

Dynamic allocation of computing resources

• Automatically provision compute resources based on load, schedule

Role-based resource assignment

• Assign compute, applications, licenses based on discipline (geologist) or asset (new ventures)

Enable quick deployment of petrotechnical applications

• Configure testing nodes, push immediately to production

Key features of the Hypervisor Engine

Allocation of graphics resources to VMs

• On-demand allocation of additional GPU resources for graphics intensive petrotechnical applications

Segment or span physical hardware

• Enables full flexibility of computing resources as demands change 24x7

High level future design

Web portal /

Broker

Corporate

VPN

Internet

Mobile users

Local users

Remote (WAN)

users

Computing Resources

Orchestration / provisioning layer

Dynamically allocate petrotechnical

compute resources based on usage

requirements

Centralized storage

arrays

Hypervisor layer

Enables full flexibility

Not technically feasible (yet)

LiveQuest installations in the world!

Thank you!

Questions?