Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI), a global leader in high-performance computing, storage and advanced visualization, and Landmark Graphics, a wholly owned business unit of Halliburton (NYSE: HAL), have demonstrated breakthrough technology with the use of advanced interactive visualization on a 400GB seismic dataset in association with Marathon Oil Company. This new practical science solution enables exploration of the Earth’s subsurface using seismic information that contains four times more information than current technologies.
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……..The Kennedy Center bought a $4 million SGI video streaming system with 12 processors, 12G of RAM and 36T of storage to run multiple videos simultaneously, in synchronization. The system can output video in multiple formats, such as MPEG.
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SGI(R) workstations running ART VPS’s accelerated ray-tracing chip sets were demonstrated publicly for the first time today at the SGI Technology Forum in Paris. The AR350 chips, configured in sets of eight and 16, are expected to be available in SGI workstations within the next two months.
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In a global effort to extract the greatest value from subsurface oil and gas reservoirs, the Exploration and Production Branch at French energy giant Total recently expanded its already extensive capabilities provided by servers and storage solutions from Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI). The move is expected to allow Total to maximize its return on drilling investments made throughout the world by strategically approaching each discovery for optimal output.
With the June deployment of six additional SGI(R) Altix(R) servers, 48 more terabytes of SGI(R) InfiniteStorage at Total’s technical center in Pau, France, researchers can simultaneously conduct detailed seismic analysis on more drilling opportunities.
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Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today announced that British Gas Exploration and Production India Ltd., (BGEPIL) and Instituto Venezolano del Petroleo SA (INTEVEP) have invested in SGI(R) Altix(R) servers and supercomputers to maximize production from some of the world’s largest deposits of oil and gas. The companies join other energy industry leaders including BP, Marathon Oil Company, Saudi Aramco, and Total in using scalable SGI Altix systems for their E&P business. Based on industry-standard 64-bit Linux(R) and Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processors, Altix systems are crucial in helping many of these companies gain a sharper understanding of oilfields located miles below the earth’s surface.
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