“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 will be 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.”