High Performance Computing Solutions at SEG Houston 2009
Silicon Graphics International Corp. (NASDAQ: SGI) will present high performance computing (HPC), data center and storage solutions for the oil and gas industry at the 79th annual Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) International Exposition from October 25 – October 28 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas. Oil and gas companies rely on SGI products and technologies to analyze large volumes of scientific and engineering data to identify and develop onshore and offshore oil and gas properties, and to help increase recovered natural resources.
“SGI is committed to addressing the complex compute needs of the geophysical sector to help facilitate the exploration of the planet and its natural resources. From our new personal supercomputer to our largest scale-up Altix® platforms, SGI delivers leading HPC solutions to enable our customers to accelerate results as they develop new ways to find natural resources,” says Tony Carrozza, senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing at SGI.
SGI High Performance Computing products to be displayed at the SEG International Exposition include:
- Octane™ III – The new personal supercomputer that combines the power and performance capabilities of a high performance deskside cluster with the portability and usability of a workstation.
- SGI® Altix® 4700 – The unique standards-based design that delivers versatile processing for the most demanding data intensive workloads, incorporating shared-memory NUMAflex® architecture, which simplifies software development, workload management and system administration.
- SGI® Altix® XE 500 – The ultra-dense 1U server that delivers top data center density and reduced infrastructure costs without sacrificing performance or functionality.
