Today we announced, jointly with SGI and Intel, the acquisition of our new high performance computing hardware. The SGI custom system features a total of 3,800 Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors. This is one of the largest commercial deployments of Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors in the world and gives us an added compute capacity of 6 petaflops. The 3,800 Intel Xeon Phi’s are deployed in our processing centres around the world. Put together in our SGI Rackable Clusters they give us the equivalent compute power of the world’s 8th largest supercomputer. Easily one of the most powerful geo-processing production systems ever. Perhaps even the biggest.

We’ve already started to see dramatic improvements in turn-around times when we compare our upgraded machines to those without coprocessors. Our time migration now runs more than ten times faster. Our depth migration runs six times faster. We’ve also seen our RTM run significantly faster too.

The embedding of our processing and imaging system into DUG insight, together with Phi-powered desktops makes interactive processing a reality on each of our geophyicists’ individual computers. A testing regime that once took weeks can now be achieved in days.

If you’re at the SEG conference visit our booth 538. We’ll be doing live demonstrations, daily, of interactive processing on a single workstation using DUG Insight.