PGS Expands Industry Leading Supercomputing Platform With Purchase of Second Cray XC Supercomputer
17 October 2016 - 6:01PM
At the 2016 Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)
International Exposition in Dallas, Texas, global supercomputer
leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ:CRAY) today announced that PGS has
significantly enhanced its supercomputing capabilities with the
purchase of a new 12-cabinet Cray® XC™ supercomputer. PGS, a
worldwide oil-and-gas company and a leader in marine seismology,
also added an additional 2.8 petabytes of capacity to its Cray®
Sonexion® storage system.
In March 2015, PGS purchased a 5-petaflops Cray XC supercomputer
and a Cray Sonexion storage solution. The Cray systems were
instrumental in producing the most detailed images ever of The Gulf
of Mexico’s subsurface as part of the PGS Triton survey –
considered the most revolutionary and technologically advanced
survey ever conducted in the region. The new system, which has been
delivered and is currently in production, is the second Cray
supercomputer at PGS and further strengthens one of the most
powerful compute platforms in the oil and gas sector.
Named “Galois” after the French mathematician Évariste Galois,
the new Cray XC supercomputer at PGS will analyze seismic data to
produce more accurate images and multi-dimensional models of the
Earth’s subsurface beneath the ocean floor. The new system will
allow PGS to run larger jobs with more complex data and algorithms
that will produce higher-quality images in less time. With the
expanded supercomputing capabilities, PGS can give its customers
the ability to better locate oil and gas deposits.
“Galois provides forward-thinking computational capabilities for
faster delivery of reverse time migration images and full waveform
inversion studies,” said Guillaume Cambois, executive vice
president for imaging and engineering at PGS. “PGS has brought
unique capabilities to the market using Cray supercomputers,
enabling the advanced generation and analysis of high resolution
pre-stack images of the subsurface.”
“Today’s most advanced seismic survey datasets encompass many
hundreds of terabytes, and gaining insight from this data lies
squarely at the convergence of supercomputing and big data,” said
Barry Bolding, chief strategy officer at Cray. “The Cray
supercomputers allow PGS to quickly process this data into an
accurate, clear image of what’s lying underneath the sea floor,
through kilometers of varied geology. This is an extraordinarily
complex computational challenge, and is where PGS excels. We’re
thrilled PGS continues to rely on Cray supercomputers to power the
next generation of seismic processing and imaging.”
For more information on the Cray XC series of supercomputers and
Cray Sonexion storage systems, please visit the Cray website at
www.cray.com.
About PGSPGS is the leading marine seismic
company that acquires high resolution seismic data that is used to
generate accurate images and 3D models of the sub-surface. Our
library contains seismic and EM data, and our services include data
acquisition and processing, imaging, reservoir analysis and
interpretation. For more information, visit www.pgs.com.
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