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June 08, 2009

Absolute Imaging Selects Acceleware Solution

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Absolute Imaging adopts Acceleware's software solution and GPU cluster technology to accelerate Kirchhoff Time Migration

CALGARY, Alberta, June 8 -- Acceleware Corp. today announced that Absolute Imaging has selected Acceleware's AxKTM acceleration solution to speed up its seismic data processing business. AxKTM dramatically improves Absolute's capabilities for processing its customer's geophysical data and helps to lower operating costs in its datacenter. Acceleware's solution seamlessly integrates with Absolute Imaging's in-house Kirchhoff Pre-Stack Time Migration (KPSTM) processing software, enabling it to leverage the massive processing power of GPUs.

"At Absolute Imaging we deal with multiple projects that consist of large data sets that need to be delivered in a timely fashion. Our success depends on providing accurate and quick turnaround of these mega projects to our clients. Utilizing Acceleware's solution for our Kirchhoff Pre-Stack Time Migrations has enabled us to efficiently migrate large data sets and deliver our products on time and on budget," said Elvis Floreani, VP Geophysics of Absolute Imaging.

The Acceleware (AxKTM) solution allows KTM, which represents the core processing task for Absolute Imaging, to run in a highly parallel manner on a cluster of GPUs. By adding GPUs to its computing environment, seismic processing is completed up to 15X faster. This speed-up allows Absolute Imaging to greatly increase its processing capacity all within the existing power, cooling and footprint constraints of their current datacenter. Operational efficiencies were also found with GPUs by reducing the number of physical machines and components, thus simplifying the datacenter.

"Acceleware offers accelerated products for both seismic migration and forward modelling," said Ryan Schneider, Acceleware CTO. "Our seismic libraries have been specifically tuned to increase processing speed with the use of NVIDIA Tesla GPUs."

Acceleware's seismic cluster technology consists of Acceleware's software licenses to run on GPUs. The complete solution is capable of delivering a consistent speed up of 15X when comparing one GPU to one core of a processor.

Availability

Acceleware's seismic migration cluster solution is available now to all current and interested SUMMIG customers. Contact seismic@acceleware.com for further details.

About Absolute Imaging

Absolute Imaging Inc. is a Canadian owned and operated Seismic Data Processing Company based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Incorporated in November of 2006, with operations starting in January of 2007, by a management team with over 100 years of experience in different aspects of the business. Absolute Imaging has established itself as a leading provider of Seismic Data Processing to the Oil & Gas and Mining industries. A combination of proven software & hardware solutions and an experienced, motivated and customer focused management and processing team provides a winning formula. Absolute's team has gained extensive experience processing 2D and 3D data from many basins around the world in both subtle stratigraphic and complex geological environments. Absolute's goal is to create value for its customers by providing extraordinary Seismic Data Processing through customer service, technology and accountability.

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