HAL and GX announce 98-node seismic and imaging cluster

Campbell 01 Nov 99 HAL Computer Systems (HAL) and GX Technology Corporation (GXT) announced the purchase of HAL SL100 rack mount SPARC Solaris servers by GX Technology to construct a new 98-node cluster at its Houston service centre. The HAL SL100 cluster will run GXT's newest additions to its EarthWave software, including Primus, for ultra-high performance 3D prestack depth migration, and Kronos, one of the industry's first programs for 3D tomographic inversion systems.

The HAL SL100 is an economical, low profile rack mount single CPU SPARC Solaris server. The 98 systems in this cluster will provide an aggregate of 49 gigabytes of memory and seven terabytes of internal disk storage. The HAL SL100 can be configured with up to one gigabyte of main memory and a processor up to 440 MHz. The SL100 is a 2U (3.5") high, standard 19" rack mount server that is just 19.25" deep, offering one of the most compact implementations of SPARC Solaris servers available today.

"3D prestack depth migration (3D PSDM) is one of the most compute intensive ñ- and therefore one of the most expensive -- applications in the oil industryî said Mick Lambert, President and COO of GX Technology. "We were one of the first commercial depth imaging suppliers to implement 3D PSDM in a clustered environment, giving us and our clients significant performance and price benefits. When it was time to expand our computing facility, we were pleased to choose HAL because they met our technology, delivery and pricing requirements."

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