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Ethernet Fabrics Offer Way Forward for Seismic Applications

Mar 24, 2009 | Ethernet technology has served the industry well over the past few decades. But given the growing demands on oil and gas datacenters -- particularly in terms of compute, storage, and bandwidth requirements -- traditional datacenter networks are becoming inhibitors in the race to stay ahead.
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HPC User Forum Wrap-Up

Oct 12, 2007 | About 100 people participated in IDC's recent HPC User Forum in Santa Fe, N.M. on Sept. 26-27. The attendees represented government, industry and academia, as well as all the major HPC vendors. Each User Forum has a theme; this one focused on the use of HPC in the energy industry.
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The Microsoft of FPGAs

Oct 27, 2006 | HPC and modern computing in general has a seemingly insatiable demand for more performance, better efficiency and scalability. Now with the expansion of computing to practically every commercial and non-commercial endeavor, an additional requirement is to apply these attributes to a much wider range of applications. At Celoxica, they believe that the FPGA is the solution that can meet both sets of challenges.
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3D Visualization for Oil and Gas Evolves

Oct 20, 2006 | 3D visualization has been the key to increased success and efficiency in many areas of exploration and production (E&P). In this industry visualization plays a critical role in gaining insight from data. But often when we discuss visualization, we are talking only about the actual rendering of images on the screen. In fact, the visualization challenge for E&P is characterized by computationally expensive algorithms, a very large number of diverse data sets, and a need for greater interactivity and collaboration. To meet this challenge, we must make data management, computation and rendering work together smoothly and efficiently.
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HPC Keys Gulf of Mexico Discovery for Chevron

Sep 15, 2006 | Chevron and two of its partners recently discovered a new field in Gulf of Mexico deepwater that could yield 3-15 billion barrels of oil, boosting U.S. reserves by up to half. At the Council on Competitiveness' HPC Users Conference on September 7, Chevron CTO, Dr. Donald Paul, gave an impromptu talk about the discovery and the crucial role HPC played.
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Linux Clusters Target Oil & Gas Applications

Aug 25, 2006 | The oil & gas industry operates in an increasingly challenging environment. The new challenges include more than high risk and high capital commitments, or declining fields and complex operations. One also wants to be smart. The good news is that smart is a lot cheaper than it used to be. Specifically, high performance computers are a lot less expensive than they used to be, and a lot more powerful. This article discusses how cutting-edge Linux clusters are tackling tough exploration, drilling and production problems for oil and gas companies.
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AMD Gets New Order From CNPC Subsidiary

Jan 21, 2009 | China Daily | Opteron-based Sun servers will be used in a new HPC cluster for geophysical service provider CNPC BGP.
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Finding Huge Potential in Rocks’ Tiniest Cracks

Dec 31, 2008 | Houston Chronicle | A Houston-based company is using supercomputing power to reveal how gas and oil flows through underground rocks.
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Hybrid Systems on Course to Speed Corporate Apps

Jul 28, 2008 | Computerworld | The type of hybrid computing that has been built into the IBM Roadrunner has attracted the attention of IT managers in a variety of industries.
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NVIDIA Tesla Processors Boost Oil Industry

Jun 25, 2008 | IT PRO | NVIDIA may be best known for its gaming dedicated graphics hardware, but its latest chips are proving popular in the high performance computing space and are making a big differences to corporate customers such as the oil industry.
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T-Platforms Presents Seismic Data Processing Solution

Jun 23, 2009 | T-Platforms presented its proprietary high performance solution for seismic data processing and the results of tests with real life data at the traditional spring User Group Meeting of Paradigm Geophyical LLC.
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Absolute Imaging Selects Acceleware Solution

Jun 08, 2009 | Acceleware today announced that Absolute Imaging has selected Acceleware's AxKTM acceleration solution to speed up its seismic data processing business.
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Paradigm to Showcase New Technologies

May 29, 2009 | Paradigm will showcase recent and major advances in its integrated software suites at the 71st European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers (EAGE) Conference & Exhibition in Amsterdam during June 8-11, and at the 2009 American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Annual Convention & Exhibition in Denver, Colo., June 7-10.
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GeoStar, NVIDIA to Transform Oil and Gas Industry in China

Apr 29, 2009 | NVIDIA Corporation and GeoStar, a leading Chinese geophysical services provider, unveiled today the launch of a new hardware and software solution that will transform seismic computation for oil and gas companies in China.
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Dell Blade Servers Make Seismic Exploration Smooth Sailing

Apr 29, 2009 | Dell PowerEdge M-series blade servers are powering a high performance computing cluster on a vessel that set a world record for offshore 3D seismic production.
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Appro Delivers HyperGreen Cluster to Rice University

Apr 28, 2009 | Appro today announced the award of a mid-sized Appro HyperGreen Intel Cluster Ready certified solution for Rice University's Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology in Houston.
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Book Review: Petascale Computing: Algorithms and Applications

Petascale Computing: Algorithms and Applications, edited by David A. Bader, is the first book in CRC's Computational Science Series, edited by Horst Simon. Although the book is a collection of papers, Bader has done an excellent job of creating a compilation that holds together and covers a broad topic very well.
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The Week in Review

Cilk++ used in parallelization of the FP-tree algorithm for pattern mining; Istanbul benchmark results posted; and the latest on the NVIDIA Tesla shortage. John West recaps those stories and more in our weekly wrap-up.
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A Trio of HPC Offerings Unveiled at ISC

Last week's International Supercomputing Conference (ISC'09) was a convenient excuse for vendors to announce a raft of new products, but three, in particular, stood out.
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Cloudy With a Chance of HPC

Jul 01 | GenomeWeb Daily News | The popularity of cloud computing in the life sciences community was on full display at April's Bio-IT World conference. Read more...

HPC From the Beach

Jul 01 | Linux Magazine | How can getting to the ocean help with HPC computing? Read more...

DARPA Investigates Extreme Supercomputing

Jun 29 | GCN.com | Agency issues RFI for "Ubiquitous High Performance Computing" systems. Read more...

Supercomputers Go From Biggest to Cheapest

Jun 29 | Computerworld | The bottom of the TOP500 reveals the coming revolution in truly accessible high-end computing. Read more...

CPUs Gear Up For -- and Some Avoid -- Hot Chips

Jun 18 | EE Times | Parallel software also takes spotlight at Stanford confab. Read more...

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Webcast: Dell Expands HPC Access and Adoption with Intel Cluster Ready Program

Source: Addison Snell, GM/VP, Tabor Research; sponsored by Dell

Many organizations that could benefit from the use of HPC clusters find that it is complicated to get the systems up and running because of limited IT resources or the complexities of the clusters themselves. Learn how the Intel Cluster Ready program, for which Dell was an original partner, seeks to address this challenge for entry level and mid-range HPC users.

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Sun Studio Compilers and Tools and Sun HPC ClusterTools allow you to create high performance parallel applications for OpenSolaris, Solaris and Linux. Sun Studio Express 11/08 includes MPI performance analysis capabilities and full OpenMP 3.0 compiler support. Learn about all this and the latest in Sun HPC ClusterTools 8.1.