By the numbers: PGS datacentre
Summary: ZDNet UK has visited the Petroleum Geo-Services datacentre and gathered specifications on the Weybridge location for future comparisons
The main processing hall in Petroleum Geo-Services' Weybridge-based megacentre is geared towards high-performance computing scale jobs, crunching data gathered by an ocean-going fleet of seismic survey vessels.
The PGS datacentre sits at the top of a family of 21 processing centres distributed across the world, with two other megacentres in Houston, Texas and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Inside the PGS megacentre in Weybridge. Photo credit: Jack Clark
| Facility | Main processing hall in Petroleum Geo-Services' Weybridge megacentre |
| Power usage effectiveness (PUE) | 1.127 |
| Size | 5,737 square feet |
| Racks | 104 |
| KW per rack | Capacity up to 20KW. The high density racks average out to 15KW. |
| Cooling | Ecofris air-cooling solution. Direct expansion cooling used for less than 100 hours per year. 24°C threshold. |
| Hardware | Predominantly HPC-geared 1U servers |
| Compute capacity | Roughly equivalent to 40,000 Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz processors |
| Designed by | Keysource |
| IT power | 700KW currently used, expandable up to to 1.8MW |
| Opened | November 2008 |
Want to know more about PGS's 'lunatic fringe' computing? Read the ZDNet UK's datacentre tour diary.
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