Hydro Oil and Energy leverages Scali to manage Norway's Linux cluster.

Scali, a provider of clustering solutions for Linux data centers, today announced that Scali Manage has been selected by Hydro Oil and Energy to manage Norway's Linux cluster.

The company says that the cluster consists of five hundred Dell PowerEdge 1855 blade servers, with a total of 1,000 Pentium Xeon CPUs, and four Dell PowerEdge 2850 servers. With 7.6 Teraflops processing power this is the most powerful cluster in Norway. Hydro Oil and Energy will use Scali Manage to administer the growth and health of a cluster dedicated to processing vast amounts of seismic data. This type of analysis requires enormous data processing power as well as uptime and system reliability optimization.

Scali will be installing Scali Manage and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system together with training and ongoing technical support. Five hundred PowerEdge 1855 bladeservers and four PowerEdge 2850 servers will be supplied by Dell Computer. Compagnie Generale de Geophysique (CGG), a supplier of geophysical products and services, is supplying their application GeoCluster for seismic data analysis.

Bjorn Skare, President and CEO of Scali says, "In seismic processing, unscheduled downtime and performance issues can lead to costly consequences. Scali Manage helps Hydro reduce this risk by providing the cluster management tools and support they need during the life of the cluster."