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LANDMARK INTRODUCES AN AFFORDABLE AND SCALABLE VOLUME VISUALIZATION AND INTERPRETATION SOLUTION
With the Combination of Landmark, Verari Systems and NVIDIA Technologies, Customers Can Visualize and Manipulate Large Regional Data Sets with Unmatched Power and Resolution
By Mike LaPan (858) 874-3800
NEW ORLEANS -- (Oct. 2, 2006) -- Landmark, a brand of the Halliburton (NYSE: HAL) Digital and Consulting Solutions division, is introducing a new high-performance team-room visualization and interpretation solution at the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) trade show in New Orleans. This new solution features Landmark’s GeoProbe® software, the Verari Systems E&P 7500 visualization server and high-end NVIDIA® graphics. It is specifically designed to help upstream oil and gas companies affordably manage large regional data sets, utilize advanced multi-attribute visualization and enable rapid, basin-scale decision making.
Landmark’s GeoProbe software, optimized for the DecisionSpace® environment, is the industry’s most powerful visualization and interpretation solution. The new E&P 7500 server, with up to eight powerful AMD Opteron® processors, 128 gigabytes of memory and high-end NVIDIA graphics, is the only visualization server technology that takes full advantage of GeoProbe software’s advanced functionality and that is approved for the entire Landmark suite.
With this solution, entire regional data sets can be investigated in detail, highlighting large-scale trends. These trends are easily missed when having to view identical data broken into multiple smaller-sized subsets.
In order to help customers experience first hand the price-performance value of this solution, Landmark will be showcasing a fully configured E&P 7500 server with optional NVIDIA Quadro® Plex 1000 visual computing system in its SEG booth No. 1326. As part of the Landmark theater presentations, Chris Loader, Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) geophysical advisor, and David M Roberts, 3-DMR consultant in visualization, seismic interpretation and development geoscience, will use this solution and the PGS Southern North Sea (SNS) 3-D MegaSurvey to dramatically visualize and interpret 45,000-square kilometers of 3-D seismic data formed from the combination of the seismic data from more than 100 different 3-D surveys.
“The E&P 7500 server and NVIDIA Quadro Plex 1000 systems are valuable additions to Landmark’s portfolio of E&P-optimized computing and infrastructure solutions,” said Douglas Meikle, vice president, Landmark and Project Management. “With a price of less than $100,000 USD, a fully configured E&P 7500 is a natural and extremely cost-effective upgrade solution for those customers looking to replace their proprietary Unix®-based solutions and to power multidisciplinary team-room environments.”
“The development of the Verari Systems E&P 7500 server and our latest relationship with Landmark create a powerful and cost-effective solution for oil and gas companies that are managing and operating digital oil fields,” said David B. Wright, CEO, Verari Systems. “We are excited to bring to market the world’s most scalable, industry-standards-based visualization solutions specifically designed to support the compute-intensive oil and gas industry and to meet its demanding needs.”
About Verari Systems
Verari Systems, Inc. is the premier developer of powerful, flexible and scalable platform-independent blade-based compute and storage solutions that are defining a new era in enterprise and high performance utility computing for the data center. Organizations such as Akamai, CGGVeritas, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Northrop Grumman, Qualcomm and Sony Imageworks, as well as top universities and research institutions worldwide, are among the customers who have chosen Verari Systems' line of high density blade servers, modular storage blades, rack-optimized servers and award-winning software solutions. To learn more about Verari Systems and its unique solutions, please visit us on the web at http://www.verari.com or call (888) 942-3800.
About Landmark
Landmark, a brand of Halliburton Drilling, Evaluation and Digital Solutions, is the leading supplier of software, optimized computing solutions and services for the upstream oil and gas industry. The company’s software solutions span exploration, production, drilling, business-decision analysis and data management. Landmark offers a broad range of consulting, services and infrastructure technologies that enable customers to optimize their technical, business and decision processes. Visit the Landmark Web site at www.lgc.com for more information on Landmark software, solutions and services.
About NVIDIA Corporation
NVIDIA Corporation is the worldwide leader in programmable graphics processor technologies. The company creates innovative, industry-changing products for computing, consumer electronics and mobile devices. NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and has offices throughout Asia, Europe and the Americas. For more information, please visit www.nvidia.com.
