SIRIUS, Center for Scalable Data Access in the Oil and Gas Domain, is one of 17 new Centers for Research-Driven Innovation (SFI) supported by the Research Council of Norway. Lead by Arild Waaler, Professor at the University of Oslo, SIRIUS involves researchers at the University of Oslo, NTNU, and the University of Oxford. The researchers, in […]
SIRIUS, Center for Scalable Data Access in the Oil and Gas Domain, is one of 17 new Centers for Research-Driven Innovation (SFI) supported by the Research Council of Norway. Lead by Arild Waaler, Professor at the University of Oslo, SIRIUS involves researchers at the University of Oslo, NTNU, and the University of Oxford. The researchers, in […]
Engineers in industry spend a significant amount of their time searching for data that they require for their core taks. E.g., in the oil&gas industry, 30–70% of engineers time is spent looking for and assessing the quality of data. (Crompton, 2008)
Numbers provided by Optique partners Siemens and Statoil suggest that Optique could free up a substantial amount of expert time annually in these two companies alone. The potential benefit from a more effective analysis of the data will be even higher.
The project will provide a semantic end-to-end connection between users and data sources. The Optique platform will feature an intuitive, general, but adaptable end-user interface. Data can be integrated from multiple, also streaming, data sources, with the possibility for large-scale parallel cloud processing and storage.
The Optique project brings a unique combination of technologies to bear on Big Data challenges: An end-user-oriented query interface; scalable query rewriting from the end-user to the source vocabulary; temporal and real-time continuous stream processing; scalable storage and query evaluation using elastic clouds.