Veritas Installs New Sx-5 Supercomputer In Singapore - Product Information

Edge: Work-Group Computing Report, Dec 13, 1999

On November 1, 1999, Veritas DGC Inc., completed the installation of its new NEC SX-5/6B vector supercomputer in its data processing facility in Singapore.

This new SX-5/6B is the geophysical industry's most powerful processing vector supercomputer in the Asia Pacific region and will greatly increase Veritas' ability to meet demand for advanced 3D seismic processing both regionally and worldwide. The new system is connected to the Veritas data processing network via a 100 MegaBytes per second high-speed connection.

"The new system began production during the first week of November," reported Ted Mariner, Vice President of Advanced Hardware and Software Systems for Veritas. "Initial results show that performance expectations have been met, with many processing steps achieving close to the expected four-fold improvement over the previous SX4 system that it is replacing."

This SX-5/6B system comprises six CPUs, each with a peak performance of 8 GigaFlops, giving a total of 48 GigaFlops. This SX-5/6B is configured with a total of 32 GigaBytes of main memory and a bandwidth of 384 GB per second. In addition, disk storage has been increased from 3.2 TeraBytes of HIPPI RAID to 12 TeraBytes.

"The SX-5 series was first delivered to customers in the Japanese domestic market in early 1999," said Sami Khan, Vice President of Marketing for Veritas in the Asia Pacific region. "This SX-5/6B is one of the first of a group of systems exported by NEC outside Japan, demonstrating Veritas' commitment to securing leading edge technologies in order to provide first-class product to our customers."

For Veritas, the new system is aimed at the complex 3D imaging and depth migration market. It will enable the Company to significantly reduce time-to-solution on large 3D projects and will allow for major technical enhancements through the use of higher fidelity pre and post-stack imaging algorithms. This will allow Veritas to perform 3D prestack time and depth migrations on larger and denser data volumes, thus raising the quality of its services to a new industry level.

Veritas DGC Inc., headquartered in Houston, Texas, provides integrated geological and geophysical technologies to the petroleum industry worldwide.