Boxborough, Mass. -- HNSX Supercomputers Inc., a subsidiary of NEC Corp., announced that its NEC SX-4 Series Supercomputer has been selected by Digicon Inc. as the platform of choice for seismic imaging. Digicon, an integrated geophysical services company utilizes high performance computing systems to run its proprietary applications, including those for 3-D depth migration and modeling. The NEC SX-4 solution, scheduled for installation in July 1996, is designed to increase throughput while reducing the effective costs of processing the data. "We needed a system that could manage compute-intensive 3-D seismic imaging techniques," said Colin Murdoch, vice president of data processing at Digicon. "The NEC SX-4 Series Supercomputer was selected for its ability to handle these tasks easily and for its price/performance advantage." The SX-4 Series combines a balanced scalable parallel vector architecture with VLSI CMOS technology to provide 1 TeraFLOP peak performance. Its SUPER-UX operating system is an enhanced UNIX-based operating system with BSD extensions.
Digicon Selects NEC SX-4 for Seismic Imaging
June 7, 1996