Mercury Computer Systems has ported its visualization framework to the new IBM Cell BE processor. The Mercury CAB (Cell Accelerator Board) and Dual Cell-Based Blade, as well as Mercury’s intuitive programming environment, the MultiCore Plus SDK (Software Development Kit) were demonstrated at Supercomputing 2006 this month. Clients use the Cell BE processor to solve application challenges in seismic processing and other verticals.
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Ark is to outsource development maintenance of its ArkField seismic and potential field integration tool to ARK CLS. A Linux release of ArkField has been announced and an OpenSpirit data server is a probable future development. The Motif-based GUI is being phased-out in favor of Trolltech’s Qt framework.
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TIBCO Software will release its General Interface (TGI), an AJAX-based rich internet application toolkit with an open source licensing option. TGI now also supports Firefox 1.5. Developers will be able to ‘freely use and extend TIBCO General Interface to combine and leverage the capabilities of a service-oriented architecture with rich internet applications technology’—aka Web 2.0.
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Imation Corp.’s ‘Disk as Tape’ solution has passed acceptance testing by CGG’s seismic equipment unit Sercel. Imation’s Ulysses is a disk in a tape cartridge form factor that can be used in existing tape libraries. Restore speeds of up to 10 times faster than tape are claimed for the LTO Ultrium cartridge emulators.
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Energy Solutions has released GasLoadForecaster 3.0 (GLF), a Microsoft .NET neural network-based gas market modeler. GLF ‘learns’ from historical data to predict future market behavior and optimize ROI. The new release brings improvements in forecasting speed and accuracy support for multiple meteorological data vendors and weather accuracy determination. GLF interfaces Energy Solutions’ other hydraulic gas pipeline models.
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Exprodat has released a new version of NitroView, its ArcIMS-based data browser. Enhancements include the ability to add dynamic vector data, connections to layer metadata ‘in-situ’ and advanced charting support.
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The latest quarterly update to the Tigress 5.0 interpretation platform adds enhancements to TIES data loader, streamlining data exchange Petrel. The Petrel link handles multiple data types, including well header, deviation, log and in one transfer. Other new features aid in data management and transfer quality control. The simulator can now model up to 1000 wells and 2000 completions.
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