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Many customers are planning R5000 upgrades in anticipation of their adoption of DecisionSpace® Desktop software, leading to such questions as: How do we begin? Show me the best practices? Who is using R5000 now? Who do we contact for help?
If you’re among the customers ready to get started with R5000, this article highlights the most important aspects to consider for initiating and planning your R5000 Upgrade Project.
This is a common question from customers who still run R2003.
R5000 requires an operating system update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, but the operating system recommended to run R2003 is Red Hat 3U7. The normal recommendation for a production R5000 upgrade is for users to switch completely to R5000 and no longer access R2003 apps and data. But in certain conditions, such as a test environment, it may be necessary to run a dual R2003 and R5000 environment from the same work station. It is possible to upgrade a current work station to Red Hat 5 and still run R2003, although some issues may be encountered with DepthTeam Express and GeoProbe, and it is not an officially supported platform (R2003 on Red Hat 5) by Landmark. Additionally, an increase of system memory may be necessary.
Landmark provides a standard script to launch its applications, but you can also have the option to develop and use custom scripts.
The command “startow” is Landmark’s standard to launch the OpenWorks command menu. It can be tailored or replaced by a different command if you choose to adopt another standard.
OpenWorks® R5000 software introduces a considerable amount of new functionality in the database, such as Interpretation Projects (replacement for SeisWorks® software projects), management of horizons in the database and well-wellbore data model. To maximise application and workflow performance for end-users, it’s necessary to procure hardware with the appropriate specifications for the database server as well as make sure the Oracle server settings are tuned correctly.
Landmark has developed a suite of benchmark tests together with a synthetic dataset to assist with onsite tuning of an OpenWorks R5000 Oracle server. continue reading »
R5000 data migration starts with a general analysis of the R2003 projects and seismic data. The PreR5000 utility provided free by Landmark is used to analyze OpenWorks and SeisWorks R2003 projects and seismic data. The PreR5000 utility is not an R5000 application and is designed to validate the data in OpenWorks and SeisWorks R2003 projects before the R5000 upgrade.
