HPC Speeds Seismic Data Analysis

The Intel® solution brief “High-Performance Computing Speeds Discovery” explains how oil and gas exploration and production companies make use of HPC to perform advanced analysis, simulation and interactive high-fidelity visualization to identify oil and gas reserves, assess the economic viability of assets, and support operational designs that maximize output.

Learn how Compagnie Générale de Géophysique (CGG) enhanced its HPC capabilities with the Intel® Scalable System Framework (Intel® SSF) for HPC, which combines highly scalable processing, powerful workstations, and modernized software code. CGG’s geophysicists and geologists needed to process and analyze growing data volumes produced by advances in seismic data-acquisition techniques. They also wanted to satisfy customer demands for greater accuracy and speed while controlling the cost of producing seismic analysis. With high-performance parallel processing powered by Intel® Xeon® processors and Intel® Xeon Phi™ processors, as well as Intel® Solid State Drives (SSDs) for enhanced throughput, CGG has improved performance by approximately 400 percent. HPC

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