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INT Brings OpenVDS Java Binding to the OSDU Community

Recently, INT announced our partnership with Bluware and our integration of Bluware’s OpenVDS format into IVAAP, our enterprise data visualization platform. We are very excited about this partnership, as well as our collaboration with OSDU. This new format was designed to empower users to browse seismic data in the cloud with high performance and lower cost.

If you are not familiar with its capabilities: OpenVDS is a cloud-native way to store seismic data in the cloud. Unlike SEG-Y, which is linear, OpenVDS data is broken into small objects and stored in the cloud object store to provide very fast access to any part of the data. OpenVDS is serverless and supports any type of seismic data, including pre-stack.

Here’s an example of how seismic data can be stored in the cloud:

seismic-data-cloud
Graphic courtesy of Bluware Corp.

 

But with OpenVDS, you have the option to store headers in the hot tier and trace data in the cold or cool tier (to restore as needed).

openvds-anatomy
Graphic courtesy of Bluware Corp.
 

Through our process of integrating this format, we realized that we could offer a bit more functionality to help more users adopt OpenVDS by offering also a JAVA binding option. Here’s a timeline of our process:

Late March 2020

After completing the VDS integration into IVAAP, we started work on OpenVDS compatibility.

Unfortunately, there was no Java binding for OpenVDS at the time. With Java being the most popular platform for complex web application backends, it seemed it would be profitable to all if the OpenVDS technology was easily usable in these environments.

Thus, we decided to bring our expertise to the community and started working on an open-source Java binding.

April 2020

Our expert team worked on the binding. After testing different approaches, we decided to avoid automatic binding technologies (Swig, …) and to write the JNI code manually.

This decision would allow us to ensure finer control over memory management, allowing us to reduce the cost of memory transfers between Java and native C++ worlds.

We also paid particular attention to the stability and error management since this library is to be used in server backends with huge uptimes.

May 18, 2020

We’re done! We are proud to announce that the work of our experts has been accepted and merged into the OpenVDS repository.

A special thank you to Bluware for their support and to Roman Matyaschuk, Ilia Mikhailichenko, and Camille Perin with INT for making this a success story.

For more information on IVAAP, please visit www.int.com/products/ivaap/


INT Releases Latest IVAAP Version Supporting OSDU Release 2

IVAAP on OSDU R2 supports seismic visualization, data aggregation with unparalleled performance in the cloud to serve large seismic volumes using IVAAP’s HTML5 technology combined with OpenVDS format.

HOUSTON, TX — May 21, 2020—Interactive Network Technologies, Inc. (INT), a leader in advanced HTML5 domain visualization in oil and gas, is pleased to announce their contribution to the new release of The Open Group’s Open Subsurface Data Universe™ (OSDU) Data Platform Release 2.

The OSDU R2 release integrates INT’s robust seismic visualization capabilities and Bluware’s open source Volume Data Store (OpenVDS). Additionally, INT contributed a Java-native interface wrapper to support the adoption of OSDU across the industry. OpenVDS and IVAAP™ work together to support fast rendering of large seismic dataset in the cloud in 2D and 3D views. 

INT’s enterprise upstream visualization platform, IVAAP, enables full data aggregation and visualization of domain data across multiple cloud platforms and data storage. Using a microservices architecture, IVAAP supports most industry data standards, including OSDU, PPDM, WITSML, and several commercial databases, and enables user co-visualization. IVAAP’s unique dashboard capabilities combine data types—real-time, historical, 2D/3D seismic, reservoir, and more—to provide a unified view of exploration, drilling, and production operations in a web browser. 

INT collaborates closely with the OpenSDU team to help validate the platform and create a powerful framework that developers can embed to deliver cloud-based digital solutions much faster than ever. Using the powerful OSDU search and delivery API, IVAAP allows users to search, find, display, and analyze data on the fly, including log, trajectories, tops, seismic, horizon and fault data. 

Creating a common environment hosted in the cloud enables oil and gas companies to efficiently access massive amounts of data, reduce data silos, collaborate remotely, implement machine learning (ML), and lower the cost of operations.

“Working closely with The Open Group, IVAAP made it possible for users to visualize seismic data. We are very proud of the work the team—including our partner Bluware—has done to ensure IVAAP offers the best possible user experience and the fastest data visualization and aggregation. Interacting with a 100G+ 3D seismic volume in a web browser with great performance is now possible,” says Dr. Olivier Lhemann, founder and President of INT. 

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For more information on INT’s newest platform, IVAAP, please visit www.int.com/products/ivaap/

Open Subsurface Data Universe™ and OSDU™ are trademarks of The Open Group.

Interactive Network Technologies, Inc. (INT) Integrates Bluware Corp. Volume Data Store (VDS) into IVAAP

INT and Bluware are partnering to empower their upstream clients with true lossless, serverless storage and advanced data visualization in the cloud.

HOUSTON, TX – May 4, 2020 – Interactive Network Technologies, Inc. (INT) a leader in advanced domain visualization in digital exploration and production (E&P) and Bluware Corp., the digital platform that enables the oil and gas industry to accelerate digital transformation initiatives and adopt cloud computing for subsurface data, are pleased to announce the integration of Volume Data Store (VDS), a data format with adaptive streaming technology for seismic data storage, into IVAAP, an upstream data visualization platform. 

IVAAP is an HTML5 data visualization and collaborative platform for large Geoscience and petrophysical data sets in the cloud that empowers product owners, developers, and architects to accelerate the delivery of subsurface digital solutions for oil and gas. Deployable in any cloud environment (Azure®, GCP®, AWS®), IVAAP can scale to meet the needs of tens to thousands of users.

“Companies are pushed to the extreme in terms of remote collaboration and access, and, especially in the case of seismic visualization, finding the right tool to handle large datasets in the cloud can be even more challenging,” says Dr. Olivier Lhemann, President and Founder of INT. “Partnering with Bluware means INT can offer our clients true serverless, lossless storage to visualize their upstream data in the cloud.”

Bluware VDS manages all types of seismic data, including pre-stack, post-stack, WAZ, and more as demanded by an organization’s business needs, workflows, and infrastructure requirements. It can also transfer legacy formats such as SEG-Y or SEP using advanced on-the-fly transcoding on-premise or in the cloud.

“Bluware VDS cloud-native seismic data environment will provide customers with quick, cost-effective, remote access to their data, which is becoming imperative for organizations,” says Dan Piette, CEO at Bluware.

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About Bluware Corp.

Bluware enables oil and gas companies to solve the most challenging objectives in the petrotechnical world. E&P companies use Bluware to achieve previously unthinkable workflows using cloud computing, and artificial intelligence for subsurface data applications and workflows. For more information, visit www.bluware.com.

Bluware and Interactive Network Technologies, Inc. (INT) Secure Strategic Partnership

INT and Bluware Partner to Offer Volume Data Store (VDS) Seismic Data Format as part of Open Subsurface Data Universe (OSDU) Release 2

HOUSTON, TX – September 16, 2019 – Bluware Corp., the digital innovation platform for seismic data, is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Interactive Network Technologies, Inc. (INT), a leader in multi-domain visualization in exploration and production (E&P).

Bluware and INT are early members in the Open Subsurface Data Universe (OSDU), a forum focused on developing a standard that creates a common data platform for all exploration, development, and well data. The standard will transform the way subsurface data is captured, analyzed, and operated.

INT and Bluware are collaborating to integrate Volume Data Store (VDS), a data format with adaptive streaming technology for seismic data storage, into IVAAP, an upstream data visualization platform.

Bluware has more than 20 years of experience enabling customers to store, access, and utilize large signal datasets. At the core of Bluware’s technology portfolio is VDS, which can intelligently manage all types of seismic data, including pre-stack, post-stack, WAZ, and more as demanded by an organization’s business needs, workflows, and infrastructure requirements. It can also transfer legacy formats such as SEG-Y or SEP using advanced on-the-fly transcoding on-premise or in the cloud.

INT has 30 years of experience in subsurface data visualization. IVAAP is an HTML5 data visualization platform for E&P workflows in the cloud that empowers product owners, developers, and architects to accelerate the delivery of subsurface digital solutions for oil and gas. Rather than develop complex G&G and petrophysical visual workflows from scratch, companies can leverage the IVAAP platform and customize it in a fraction of the time. Deployable in any cloud environment (Azure®, GCP®, AWS®), IVAAP can scale to meet the needs of tens to thousands of users.

“We are excited about this partnership. IVAAP multi-domain data visualization will benefit from the adoption of VDS optimized seismic format. Together, the technologies will significantly increase the velocity at which G&G business decisions can be made,” says Dr. Olivier Lhemann, President and Founder of INT.

This partnership will result in the integration of VDS for current IVAAP customers at the end of October 2019. Later this year, INT will offer IVAAP for OSDU Release 2, which will include full support for OpenVDS, the open source version of VDS.

“We are excited to welcome INT to the Bluware platform. The IVAAP solution is one of the first cloud-native visualization solutions in E&P. INT’s extensive industry experience brings further validation to the Bluware platform. Our partnership expedites digital transformation initiatives for our customers looking for early success in their journey to the cloud,” says Dan Piette, CEO at Bluware.

About Bluware Corp.
Bluware enables oil and gas companies to solve the most challenging objectives in the petrotechnical world. E&P companies use Bluware to achieve previously unthinkable workflows using cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and interactive machine learning for seismic data applications and workflows. For further information, visit www.bluware.com.

About Interactive Network Technologies, Inc. (INT)
For three decades, we’ve created products that help oil and gas companies visualize, monitor, and analyze their data. From customizable widgets to out-of-the-box applications, our expert visualization solutions offer unparalleled flexibility for both scientific industries and business, and our HTML5/web-enabled visualization technologies are rock-solid and network-secure. For further information, visit www.int.com.

For more information about IVAAP or INT’s other data visualization products, please visit www.int.com.

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INT, the INT logo, and IVAAP are trademarks of Interactive Network Technologies, Inc., in the United States and/or other countries.

Open Subsurface Data Universe™ and OSDU™ are trademarks of The Open Group.