GEO apps imagery for GoM

SEATTLE - Cray Inc. announced March 24 it has been awarded a contract to provide Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS), a global oil-and-gas company, with a Cray XC40 supercomputer and Sonexion 2000 storage system. The 5-petaflop Cray supercomputer will be one of the largest systems the company has delivered to a customer, and among the largest supercomputers deployed in the commercial sector. Headquartered in Norway with a North American regional center in Houston, PGS creates high-resolution seismic maps and 3D models of the earth's sub-surface, which oil and gas companies use to explore and produce offshore reserves. The new supercomputer and storage system will provide PGS with the advanced computational capabilities to run highly-complex seismic processing and imaging applications. These applications include imaging algorithms for the PGS Triton survey - the most advanced seismic imaging survey conducted in Gulf of Mexico. The new Cray systems are expected to be deployed this year. (Source: Cray Inc. 03/24/15)