Equipment/Software/Literature

Oct. 5, 2009

New tool for exploration operations

New Quadro Plex solutions are suited for scalable visualization professionals who interact with 3D models and analyze large volumes of data.

The visual computing platforms are designed to power a range of ultrahigh resolution and multichannel collaboration environments—ranging from interpretation desktops to visualization walls to network operations centers.

Quadro Plex-based solutions enable exploration specialists to seamlessly run any software application across multiple ultrahigh resolution displays or projectors, facilitating accurate and timely decision making, the company points out.

These flexible solutions are built on the Quadro Plex visual computing system, featuring two Quadro FX 5800 GPUs and 8 GB of memory. By connecting two Quadro Plex systems to a single work station, users can view images at a resolution of 36 megapixels, span visuals across two 4K projectors or eight autosynchronized displays, and drive stereoscopic 3D content for an immersive experience.

These Quadro Plex scalable visualization solutions power environments where high resolution images and real-time data feeds are seamlessly blended for training, simulation, and operations monitoring, the firm notes.

Source: NVIDIA Corp., 2701 San Tomas Expressway, Santa Clar, CA 95050.

New model aids seismic processing

New GeoDepth tomography, a next-generation grid-based velocity model solution, is designed to enable geophysicists to rapidly and confidently update the largest velocity models developed from complex geologic regimes.

Tomography is the newest addition to the GeoDepth software suite, delivering enhanced seismic imaging quality, reduced interpretation uncertainty, and increased productivity.

The GeoDepth tomography solution addresses the computational, interpretational, and acquisitional challenges of updating large and complex velocity models for critical seismic assets. It provides added capacity for handling rich azimuth acquisitions and updating anisotropic parameters in sedimentary layers.

GeoDepth tomography leverages this company's high performance computing infrastructure as well as its interpretation solutions to deliver automatic velocity updates. The solution minimizes iteration cycles by combining rich, high quality ray tracing with new tools that automatically reflect surface picking and prestack residual moveouts.

This seismic processing tool provides the GeoDepth suite with new capabilities that simplify and enhance the velocity modeling process, the firm says.

Source: Paradigm BV, Reimeresbeek 2, 1082 AG Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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