Calgary-based OpenGeoSolutions has ported its spectral decomposition technology to NVIDIA’s Tesla C1060 GPU-based compute engine, bringing an ‘order of magnitude’ performance hike. OGS president Jim Allison said, ‘We are seeing unprecedented speedups with processing time down from two hours to two minutes. A single Tesla C1060 delivers the same performance as our 64 CPU cluster.’ Along with its processing offering, OGS provides support to users of the open source FreeUSP seismic processing toolset.
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CartoPac’s new Field Server automates and streamlines many field data collection processes providing centralized data storage and internet connectivity. The solution targets, inter alia, field workers at oil and gas companies and can be used as a stand-alone product or with ESRI ArcGIS Server, ArcSDE and other data stores. Field Server provides geo data QA/QC, GPS post processing, work order generation, printable field reports and database loading.
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ffA has released SEA 3D Pro 2008, bringing ffA’s Windows seismic imaging application SVI Pro to the Linux workstation. SVI is now interoperable with GeoProbe, adding volume interpretation workflows to Halliburton’s seismic interpretation flagship.
Intervera Data Solutions has announced the ‘pre-release’ of DataVera 8.0 its data quality solution. The new release includes a ‘Monitor’ module that leverages an industry standard web services framework to interoperate with SOA-enabled applications, such as middleware and workflow tools. The pre-release includes 200 new E&P business rules focused on master data management.
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OHM—Rock Solid Images has added rock physics electromagnetics (EM) to RSI’s iMOSS modeling tool. iMOSS-em was developed under the industry funded WISE JIP.
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Aberdeen, UK-based Perigon Solutions has added OpenSpirit connectivity to its iPoint Visualization System. iPoint can now access well data from any OpenSpirit-enabled data store and share interaction events among applications.
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WesternGeco has just announced ‘UniQ’ its ‘next-generation’ land seismic acquisition system. The point-receiver acquisition and processing system combines and ‘extreme’ (up to 150,000 at a 2ms sample rate) channel count with support for multiple simultaneous sources. Our thumbnail calculations suggest the UniQ system is capable of producing a few terabytes of seismic during a day’s shooting. Seismologists might like to brace themselves for the data onslaught.
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Seismic Micro Technology’s 8.3 release of its Kingdom Suite interpretation suite adds AVO conditioning, forward modeling and patent-pending neural network-based log ‘replacement’ technology. The latter is claimed to ‘identify areas of pay, even where records have been lost, through the automated generation of missing log curves.’ According to SMT, in a recent survey by Welling & Co., geoscientists rated Kingdom as ‘the interpretation software they recommend most.’ More from the Welling survey on page 12.
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Tecplot RS 2009 has just been announced with ‘deeper analysis and clearer visualization,’ new platforms (64 bit Vista and Linux) and added support for the VIP and NEXUS simulators. A FLEXnet License Manager also has been added for enhanced installation and license management. User requirements from Chevron and International Reservoir Technology drove the upgrade.
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