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. Steve Purves, technical director of FFA, a provider of seismic analysis software to the global oil and gas industry, said that NVIDIA’s new Tesla 10 series parts in combination with the CUDA programming language have made a big difference to the performance of the tools that it offers to geophysicists.
NVIDIA Tesla Processors Boost Oil Industry
June 25, 2008