TGS hitches up with AWS for cloud services
TGS has chosen Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud provider.
Under the multi-year agreement, AWS will provide high-performance computing (HPC) and Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) services.
Goals include modernization of TGS Imaging AnyWare on AWS and the adoption of “cloud elasticity” to help optimize processing workflows.
At present, the company says it uses Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to conduct parallel workloads, scaling up quickly to millions of CPUs to deliver rapid turnaround times on complex customer requirements.
The company is also using a multi-modal Subsurface Foundation Model (SFM) built on Amazon Bedrock and powered by Amazon SageMaker HyperPods to simultaneously process different types of data.
"By moving TGS Data Verse, the largest subsurface seismic library, and the TGS Imaging AnyWare platform to AWS, we are co-innovating to deliver an exploration-ready atlas of the subsurface," TGS CEO Kristian Johansen said. “This collaboration translates subsurface data into strategic intelligence with unprecedented scale and speed, marking a fundamental shift that will accelerate prospect generation and create competitive advantages for our customers."
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Jeremy Beckman has been Editor Europe, Offshore since 1992. Prior to joining Offshore he was a freelance journalist for eight years, working for a variety of electronics, computing and scientific journals in the UK. He regularly writes news columns on trends and events both in the NW Europe offshore region and globally. He also writes features on developments and technology in exploration and production.