Largest Silicon Graphics Prism System in the World to Deliver Real-Time, Interactive, 3D Seismic Data for Energy Customers

Landmark, a part of Halliburton's (NYSE: HAL - News) Digital and Consulting Solutions Division, selected the new Silicon Graphics Prism(TM) platform to create the world's fastest and largest advanced visualization computer system in the oil and gas exploration field. Landmark, working with Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI - News) and Intel, will soon offer its global clients real-time, 3D interactivity on multiple volumes of seismic data at a newly designed facility within its Houston, Texas, headquarters. The Silicon Graphics Prism visualization system will enable Landmark customers to quickly explore large numbers of deepwater offshore blocks using massive regional surveys. Also, they will be able to bring oil and gas production online faster by using this 3D environment to interactively plan optimal well paths using all of their geological and geophysical data.

Landmark, the market leader in Volume Interpretation software, has installed a Silicon Graphics Prism system with 64 Intel Itanium 2 processors, eight ATI graphics pipes and 640GB of Dataram memory in a 64-bit Linux operating system environment. Landmark will be porting its premiere GeoProbe Volume Interpretation system to the Silicon Graphics Prism platform. The GeoProbe system is unique in its ability to work with multiple volumes and to run interactively on extremely large data sets. This system will enable customers to visualize seismic data sets at close to a Terabyte (TB) in size. Landmark already envisions adding enough memory to reach 1TB within the year. Dataram's high capacity memory dimms make these large memory configurations possible from both performance and cost perspectives.

"Landmark chose Silicon Graphics Prism because it is the only system that can handle the large data volumes that our customers want to interpret using the GeoProbe system," said Jonathan Lewis, vice president, Innovation and Marketing, Halliburton's Digital and Consulting Solutions Division. "The GeoProbe system is both a Multithreaded and Multipipe application. Combining these qualities with Silicon Graphics Prism provides a unique system that will allow our customers to redefine the boundaries of what is possible in Volume Interpretation."

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