PGS opens new seismic data processing center in Brazil
  by: OilOnline
  Wednesday, May 26, 2004

Petroleum Geo-Services ASA has opened a major new Seismic Data Processing Center in Rio de Janeiro. With this center, PGS will be the only seismic contractor able to provide an in-country solution for large-scale projects, many of which require the enhanced subsurface imaging afforded by compute intensive applications such as Pre-Stack Time Migration and Pre-Stack Depth Migration.

The technology infrastructure of the new PGS center, comprised of 519 IBM eServer xSeries 335s, was provided by IBM Brazil and it is currently one of the largest supercomputing clusters running the Linux operating system in South America. The center is comprised of 1024 Intel Xeon processors that deliver 6 tflops of compute capacity, a holoSeis visualization system and a dedicated link to all of PGS’ R&D and support resources at our Houston Hub Center.

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