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Research and Markets: Examine the Society of Exploration Geophysicists 2007 Conference Proceedings in San Antonio: Understand the Latest Developments & Products(M2 PressWIRE Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) RDATE:19092008 Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/0c8490/society_of_explora) has announced the addition of the "Society of Exploration Geophysicists 2007 Conference Proceedings - San Antonio" report to their offering. Forum presentations revealed that unconventional will mean serious geophysical activity over tight sands/shale gas plays. Chesapeake is showing the way with a $160 million investment in 3D seismic surveys on unconventional plays throughout the US. Both Paradigm and the University of Colorado spin-out TerraSpark are offering new approaches to seismic interpretation by transforming a present day seismic image back to its depositional setting. The idea is that this allows easier interpretation of sedimentary bodies that can then be re-transformed back to their present day state. A more conventional, but nonetheless spectacular development is the appearance of a seismic probe in Petrel. Seismic modeling has also seen some interesting developments with the acquisition of GeoSmith s Shapes 3D topology engine by Landmark. Demand for seismic processing is going through the roof , driven especially by the high end 3D wave equation market and esoteric acquisition techniques such as wide azimuth. The problem set that this presents spanning storage, multi core CPUs, networking was the subject of several high performance computing presentations. The open source JavaSeis environment, with its in situ storage model has received support from ConocoPhillips and Landmark. A presentation by Total suggests that the graphics processing unit (GPU) is likely to have a considerable impact on HPC. The NVIDIA Tesla boxes, quite ubiquitous at the show, herald what has been described as a tipping point in GPU-based number crunching. HPC involves an interplay between hardware and software particularly in the field of parallel processing across complex arrangements of clusters and disk storage. This has resulted in bundled offerings such as Fraunhofer s PreStackPro and high performance filesystem and Paradigm s GeoDepth bundle on Panasys storage. Dynamic Graphics CoViz has been re-vamped to include real time data feeds so the platform now offers a credible overview of a multiplicity of data sources (including production) and third party applications. Key Topics Covered: - SEG Forum geophysics and unconventional reserves - Appro HPC session - Barco Galaxy NH12 screen and LC-5621 flat panel monitor - Dynamic Graphics real time data in Coviz 2.0 - Energy Information Solutions Standards Manager - Ergonomic interpretation systems, avoiding RSI Doug Bishea, ExxonMobil - Fraunhofer Parallel Filesystem - Fraunhofer/EnVision PreStack Pro - Geo-Logic LithoTect - Geosoft full tensor gravity gradient inversion in GMSYS-3D - Headwave pre-stack interpretation - HPC not designed for geophysics Phil Neri, Paradigm - HPC in BP Keith Gray - HPC Session - Ikon Science RokDoc-3D4D - Intel HPC roadmap - JavaSeis Chuck Mosher, ConocoPhillips - Justcroft JustCGM for Windows (and Petrel) - Kelman s seismic data management system - Landmark integration of JavaSeis in ProMax - Landmark acquires Geosmith - Landmark offers Storwize data compression - Landmark s instant team room display - Maxeler MAX-1 FPGA-based seismic processing - Microsoft and Schlumberger collaboration, Ed Draper, Microsoft - NVIDIA deskside supercomputer - Panasas ActiveStore cluster for seismic processing - Paradigm SKUA - Petrosys and Petrel integration - Planar Systems SD2020 stereo monitor - Schlumberger Petrel s new probe, plug-ins, data management - SEG Advanced Modeling Project (SEAM) - Spatial Energy image data hosting - TerraSpark computer aided stratigraphic interpretation - TierraGeo 3D finite difference modeling - The Data Room Technology Watch subscription information For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/0c8490/society_of_explora CONTACT: Laura Wood, Senior Manager, Research and Markets Fax: +1 646 607 1907 (US) Fax: +353 1 481 1716 (Rest of World) e-mail: [email protected] ((M2 Communications Ltd disclaims all liability for information provided within M2 PressWIRE. Data supplied by named party/parties. Further information on M2 PressWIRE can be obtained at http://www.presswire.net on the world wide web. Inquiries to [email protected])). Copyright ? 2008 M2 Communications Ltd. |