Systems/Enterprise:
SGI'S VISUAL AREA NETWORKING
SOLUTION ADDS PUNCH TO THE GRID
Visual Area Networking, SGI's anytime, anywhere, any-device visualization
solution that is revolutionizing the way business is conducted, takes center
stage at SGI's booth at the Society of Exploration Geophysicists meeting.
The theme across a wide spectrum of dynamic demonstrations and talks is
real-time, interactive, collaborative analysis of enormous amounts of seismic
information from any client device, anywhere on a network. End users on
different continents can work together by grabbing and manipulating visual
results to analyze terabyte-sized data sets without waiting days to copy the
data to each location.
"Visualization in stereo theater settings, or SGI Reality Center facilities,
has long been a staple in the exploration phase of the oil and gas business,"
explains SGI's Bill Bartling, director, Global Energy Solutions. "Now Visual
Area Networking leapfrogs over earlier technology barriers to transform the
industry's already business-proven visualization infrastructure into
international collaborative decision-making hubs for geographically
distributed team members who are involved in every phase of the energy
enterprise. Remote monitoring and control of robotically driven fields and any
number of other high-ROI scenarios that could have only been imagined just
months ago can become today's reality with this collaboration breakthrough."
To illustrate the extraordinary benefits of Visual Area Networking technology,
SGI is teaming with key industrial partners to demonstrate advanced
applications, showcased throughout each day.
The BP Center for Visualization, at the University of Colorado is
demonstrating the Immersive Drilling Planner application on a dual-head
display connected to a Silicon Graphics Octane2 workstation.This application
integrates geological, geophysical, reservoir and existing well data with
interactive drilling and platform planning in a 3D visualization environment.
The center, which is powered by SGI Onyx family graphics supercomputers, is a
leading research center for the use of immersive 3D visualization.
As part of its strategic alliance with SGI for high-end Visual Area Networking
solutions, TeraBurst Networks, will demonstrate its Wide Area Visualization
Solution (WAVS) for global collaboration between visualization centers powered
by SGI equipment. Using a fiber connection between SGI's booth and the
University of Colorado's BP Center for Visualization booth, an industry-first
solution for high-end video (both mono and stereo) and real-time interactive
capability (audio and remote keyboard/mouse) will be showcased.
Rock Solid Images, is demonstrating to SEG attendees the ability of a Visual
Area Network to handle large data sets. Rock Solid uses advanced petrophysical
and seismic modeling tools to learn if the seismic tool in question is
sensitive to the rock and fluid changes they are trying to detect. Once
determined, a calibration data set can be constructed to extract this response
from the seismic data volumes.
The Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and Annual
Meeting, held this year in Salt Lake City's Salt Palace Convention Center, has
evolved into a premier showcase for cutting-edge, energy-related technology.
More than 250 exhibiting companies and 9,000 professionals from around the
world have converged on Salt Lake City to participate in the variety of
industry-related activities offered throughout the week.
About SGI
Celebrating its 20th year, SGI, also known as Silicon Graphics Inc, is the
world's leader in high-performance computing, visualization and the management
of complex data. SGI products, services and solutions enable its technical and
creative customers to gain strategic and competitive advantages in their core
businesses. Whether being used to design and build safer cars and airplanes,
discover new medications and oil reserves, predict the weather, entertain us
with thrilling movie special effects or provide mission-critical support for
government and defense, SGI systems and expertise are empowering a world of
innovation and discovery.
www.sgi.com
The BP Center for Visualizationat the University of Colorado:
www.colorado.edu/Research/bpVisCenter
Rock Solid Images:
www.rocksolidimages.com
TeraBurst Networks:
www.teraburst.com
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