2007-06-09
Mercury Computer Systems, Visualization Sciences Group, and NVIDIA® to
provide combined high-performance computing and visualization to make
Oil and Gas exploration more efficient
Mercury Open Inventor® 3D visualization
toolkit uses NVIDIA CUDA™ and Tesla GPU Computing solutions to
deliver massive
parallel computation and 3D visualization capabilities to E&P applications
Roma, June 9, 2008 - Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY) and
NVIDIA® Corporation
(NASDAQ: NVDA) announced a step forward in their collaboration to provide
exploration and production (E&P) application developers with a comprehensive
solution for simultaneous computation and visualization of huge 3D seismic
data sets, or any highly demanding computing tasks in the interpretation
and simulation workflows.
Mercury has integrated NVIDIA's Tesla™ GPU computing power inside its
Open Inventor® 3D development toolkit for highly demanding computing
tasks in the data analysis, interpretation, and simulation E&P workflows.
E&P application solutions will get interoperability between 3D visualization
and the computation on the fly. Open Inventor has been largely adopted
by the Oil E&P industry. It includes VolumeViz LDM, a high-performance
volume visualization technology for extremely large seismic data sets
(pre- and post-stacks), and ReservoirViz LDM, advanced visualization
components for reservoir modeling and simulation.
During the EAGE Conference and Exhibition 2008 in Rome, Mercury Visualization
Sciences Group will demonstrate how the seamless integration of CUDA
technology into Open Inventor enables simultaneous interactive computation
and display of seismic attributes while moving a slice or a region of
interest within very large volume datasets. This application moreover
illustrates the perfect scalability delivered by the Tesla™ GPU computing
solution. Performance of interactive visualization and computation on-the-fly
lineary increases with number of GPU devices used. Finally, this shows
how the Mercury LDM large data management technology provides a perfect
out-of-core data access framework that, coupled with NVIDIA CUDA devices,
delivers a unique high-performance desktop solution for the most demanding
computing tasks in E&P.
“While out-of-core data management continues to be essential to
visualizing large data, deriving new data sets or fusing multiple datasets
together
is becoming increasingly important in the process of understanding data.
And while data-intensive applications continue to rely on graphics hardware
for visualization, this same hardware has proven to be very efficient
for some computing tasks, making the GPU an attractive solution,” said
Jean Bernard Cazeaux, Vice President of the Visualization Sciences Group
at Mercury Computer Systems. “Mercury Visualization Sciences Group
has taken the next step forward, allowing computation algorithms to be
integrated
into the visualization framework, for example, derivation of new data
using NVIDIA CUDA. This powerful combination of LDM technology and GPU
computing delivers both on-the-fly computation capability and interactive
visualization and provides the most efficient solution for extracting
information from data.”
Open Inventor® by Mercury is the de facto standard 3D graphics toolkit
for the development of interactive applications, largely adopted by the
Oil E&P industry. It includes advanced support of OpenGL® shaders to
further enhance the 3D visualization perception for the end user, while
allowing strong interoperability with the NVIDIA CUDA toolkit for on-the-fly
high-performance computing.
NVIDIA Tesla is a revolutionary, high-performance GPU computing solution
that delivers supercomputing power to any CPU-based workstation or server.
The CUDA™ C-Compiler allows optimized programming of the GPU in the C
language, turning the parallel processing capabilities of the GPU into
massive computing power.
The combination of the revolutionary performance of CUDA/Tesla, with
the integration capabilities of Open Inventor 3D API, provides application
developers with infinite possibilities for:
- Massive dynamic or static computation capabilities on seismic
data with simultaneous 3D visualization feedback
- Seamless integration of optimized CUDA computing codes into Open
Inventor- and VolumeViz LDM-based applications
- Leveraging the latest NVIDIA software and hardware solutions (CUDA
SDK, Tesla and Quadro FX boards) to perform intensive parallel computation
on the workstation.
"The oil and gas industry has been one of the most active in their
rapid adoption of CUDA and Tesla GPU computing technology as they have realized
the
enormous potential it has to not only speed up their work, but more importantly,
improve accuracy,” said Andy Keane, General Manager of the GPU Computing business
at NVIDIA. “The integration of CUDA into Mercury’s Open Inventor is enabling
a huge step forward in this endeavor, delivering highly detailed seismic analysis
in real-time."
For more information on Open Inventor by Mercury Computer Systems, visit
Mercury in Booth #9310 at EAGE 2008 Conference, visit http://3dviz.mc.com,
or contact Mercury at (866) 627-6951.
About Open Inventor® by Mercury Computer Systems
Open Inventor® by Mercury is an object-oriented, cross-platform 3D graphics
toolkit for rapid prototyping and development of industrial-strength
interactive 3D applications using C++, .NET or Java. It provides the
power and functionality of OpenGL at an object-oriented level including
advanced support of OpenGL shaders to further enhance the 3D visualization
perception of the end user. Open Inventor by Mercury provides high-performance
volume visualization technology for extremely large seismic data sets;
as well as breakthrough technologies that implement rendering distribution
on clusters, scene and image compositing to visualize huge amount of
data remotely, and a broad range of visualization techniques on 2D and
3D meshes for reservoir modeling and simulation. More info at 3dviz.mc.com
About NVIDIA® Telsa™ GPU computing processor
NVIDIA® Tesla™ GPU computing processor is the first to bring a massively
multi-threaded architecture to high performance computing (HPC) applications
for scientists, engineers, and other technical professionals. The Tesla
C870 GPU computing processor transforms a standard system into a personal
supercomputer. With a 128-processor computing core, a C-language development
environment for the GPU, a suite of developer tools, and the world’s
largest ISV development community for GPU computing, the Tesla GPU computing
processor enables professionals to develop applications faster and to
deploy them across multiple generations of processors.
The Tesla C870
GPU computing processor can be used in tandem with multi-core CPU systems
to create a flexible solution for personal supercomputing. More info
at www.nvidia.com.
About VSG, the Visualization Sciences Group of Mercury Computer Systems
VSG is the leading provider of interactive 3D visualization software
solutions, for the most demanding industrial and scientific applications
including Large Data Management, data fusion, dynamic GPU computation,
post-processing of multi-physics simulation, from desktop to augmented
reality, from local rendering to remote visualization. VSG helps its
customers succeed in geosciences, materials science, oil & gas, manufacturing,
and engineering, supported by a world-class organization. Visit VSG
at 3dviz.mc.com.
Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. is based in Chelmsford, Massachusetts,
and serves customers worldwide through a broad network of direct sales
offices, subsidiaries, and distributors. We are listed at the NASDAQ
National Market (NASDAQ: MRCY), visit Mercury at www.mc.com.
Contacts:
Laurent Billy
Director, Marketing & Communication
Visualization Sciences Group
Mercury Computer Systems
lbilly@mc.com
http://3dviz.mc.com
+33 556 13 71 50
Andrew Humber
Senior PR Manager
GPU Computing Business
NVIDIA Corporation
ahumber@nvidia.com
www.nvidia.com
+1 408 486 8138
Open Inventor and OpenGL are registered
trademarks of Silicon Graphics, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries
worldwide, used under license from Silicon Graphics, Inc. CUDA is a trademark
of NIVIDIA Corporation. VolumeViz LDM is a trademark of Mercury Computer
Systems, Inc. All other company and/or product names may be trade names,
trademarks and/or registered trademarks of the respective owners with
which they are associated.
Copyright © 2008 Mercury Computer Systems and NVIDIA Corporation. All
rights reserved.
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