Veritas DGC installs third SX-5 supercomputer in LondonLondon 10 Nov 2000 Veritas DGC (VDGC), has installed their third NEC SX-5 Series parallel vector supercomputer. The newest VDGC installation is located at their geophysical processing facility in London. The Company recently installed SX-5 supercomputers at both their Houston and Singapore centres. VDGC currently operates 21 seismic data processing centres in major oil and gas markets world wide.
Veritas DGC (VDGC), a leading technology partner
serving the world-wide geophysical community, has installed their third NEC
SX-5 Series parallel vector supercomputer. The newest VDGC installation is
located at their geophysical processing facility in London. The Company recently
installed SX-5 supercomputers at both their Houston and Singapore centres.
VDGC currently operates 21 seismic data processing centres in major oil and gas
markets worldwide. The NEC SX-5, one of the world's most powerful
supercomputers, is a backbone of Veritas' global computing resource.
The system in Singapore is a 6 processor, 32 GB main memory, model while
those in London and Houston are 8 processors with 32 and 64 GB of main memory,
respectively. Each individual processor has 8 GFLOPS peak performance and can
process huge volumes of 3D and 4D seismic data through complex sequences in
significantly reduced time frames as compared to other platforms offered in the
industry.
VDGC has developed state-of-the-art proprietary seismic data processing
systems providing a wide range of functionality designed to process data from all
acquisition environments. All software is UNIX-based and capable of running on
hardware platforms from workstations to the SX-5 supercomputers.
With many platforms to compare against, VDGC has continuously reinforced their
belief in the processing benefits of NEC's parallel vector systems from their first
installation of an SX-4 Series machine in 1996 to what is today their sixth SX Series
system acquisition. With such continuous customer support, NEC's parallel vector
supercomputers have become the world's leading systems to provide solutions
capability for very large computationally and I/O intensive applications.
Complementing the leap in data processing horsepower provided by the NEC
systems, VDGC operates four state-of-the-art data visualization centres. These
advanced interpretation facilities represent a new era in the way exploration data
are fundamentally viewed and interpreted. The centres offer multi-disciplinary
exploration teams the ability to display and interactively manipulate large volumes
of complex 3D seismic data, together with many different types of geoscientific data.
This provides the benefit of different perspectives to create better, faster
interpretations and solutions.
Veritas DGC also owns one of the largest libraries of non-exclusive land and marine
seismic data in the industry. The VDGC library consists of Company-owned 3D and
2D seismic data available for license to multiple clients on a non-exclusive basis.
Because of the relatively high cost of acquiring and processing 3D seismic data, many
oil and gas companies regularly participate in multi-client surveys to reduce their
overall geophysical expenses.
For further information about Veritas DGC visit
http://www.veritasdgc.com. For information
on the SX-5 Series Parallel Vector Supercomputer see
http://www.hstc.necsyl.com.
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