SGI showcases top visualisation technologies at Society of Exploration Geophysicists ExpoSan Antonio 10 September 2001 SGI featured immersive, interactive displays of its industry-leading collaborative visualisation technologies at the Society of Exploration Geophysicists 2001 International Exposition and Annual Meeting, which took place in San Antonio on Friday, September 14.
At oil and gas companies around the world, data are increasingly viewed simultaneously and collaboratively by multi-disciplinary teams dispersed in locations around the world. The Reality Center 3300W display illustrates how the combination of high-performance computing and data management technologies with advanced collaborative visualisation capabilities allows geoscientists, engineers and researchers to gain new insight through analysis of critical data
in innovative and cost-saving ways.
SGI is an expert in technologies that allow oil and gas companies around the world to analyse geoscience and engineering data in highly visual, three-dimensional formats for exploration and development of hydrocarbon reservoirs. This includes walks through the subsurfaces to see the geometric relationship between faults and the reservoir strata. Re-creating the types of wall display and visualisation rooms that SGI has provided to oil and gas companies worldwide, the SGI booth included a three-channel SGI Reality Center 3300W wall display that is driven by an SGI Onyx 3400 visualisation system. It sits within an 18-seat theater that features demonstrations on the hour of a wide variety of independent software vendor applications.
The OpenGL Vizserver computing solution, which delivers advanced visualisation system capabilities and performance to the desktop, was demonstrated in both UNIX and Windows NT environments. The SGI booth also previewed an innovative display technology for the Silicon Graphics Octane2 visual workstation that offers optimum visualisation for geophysical applications over multiple monitors. The technology is built on a combination of the VPro V12 graphics subsystem, the most advanced desktop graphics available today, and a unique implementation of SGI display capabilities.
The new display technology demonstrates applications being used at the new BP Center for Visualization at the University of Colorado, which was established last year by a donation of hardware, software, intellectual property and seed funding from BP, with subsequent contributions from SGI.
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