How to choose: answering the main questions
Server at a remote site?
Key focus on autonomy: IPMI for remote management, redundant power supplies with UPS, RAID, and minimal maintenance. Plus, protection against dust and temperature: industrial-grade chassis and redundant connectivity for telemetry.
Seismic data processing?
This is HPC: terabytes of data, parallel computing, often GPU-based. Combining a high-capacity storage node with compute nodes (or our GPU servers) reduces interpretation cycles from weeks to days.
Reservoir modeling (Eclipse, tNavigator)?
Multi-core nodes with large memory: 512 GB+ for heavy models; licenses are calculated per core, so we balance frequency and quantity.