“3DGeo Development, Inc., a leading innovator in 3-D
advanced seismic imaging technology, has purchased a 32-processor
cluster system from Linux NetworX to use in its high computation
data processing application. According to 3DGeo, the high
performance computing market is experiencing a paradigm shift from
traditional supercomputers and large parallel servers to Linux
cluster systems.
“It’s not surprising that the oil and gas industry already
recognizes the advantages of using a Linux cluster system over
other alternatives. Other than the federal government, this
industry is the largest market for high performance computing,”
said Alexander Mihai Popovici, Ph.D. and chief executive officer of
3DGeo. “With the Linux NetworX cluster system we’ve purchased, we
expect to receive the same performance as a supercomputer for
one-tenth the cost. It’s hard to ignore impressive figures like
10-to-1.”
“The Linux NetworX cluster system is used to perform various
complex data processing tasks, including algorithms exclusive to
3DGeo, for seismic processing applications. The company plans to
upgrade and add additional nodes in the future to the scalable
cluster system offered by Linux NetworX. Scalability, system
management tools, price performance and service/support issues are
the main reasons 3DGeo selected the Linux NetworX cluster
system.”