Saudi Aramco installs 92 node SPDallas 07 Nov 2000 Saudi Aramco, a leading global petroleum company, has completed the installation of 92 node IBM SP supercomputer. It is based at the company's headquarters in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
The supercomputer is powered by IBM POWER3 microprocessors. The
IBM nodes have varying number of processors ranging from two to eight. This
high-performance SP system is designed to allow Saudi Aramco to run complex
seismic applications to explore for oil and gas. The SP supercomputer is
connected to over 100 TB (100 Trillion Bytes) of IBM high performance Serial
Storage Architecture (SSA) disks. These disks are used with the IBM General
Parallel File Systems (GPFS) to furnish the seismic data to the computer nodes.
"The increasing domestic and foreign demand for gas requires analysis of the
most sophisticated and accurate data that we can obtain," says Vincent W. Garcia, Client Manager for Saudi Aramco at SBM in Al-Khobar. "This is made
possible through the use of powerful processors such as the IBM SP".
Ali Dulaim, SBM Regional Manager - Eastern Province, comments: "The speed and
smoothness of the installation is testimony to the skill and dedication of our
joint team. Though it was a team effort, I would like to give particular praise
to the Saudi Aramco team who demonstrated outstanding technical and
organizational expertise throughout."
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