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Oil and Gas Giant on Tech Infrastructure Investments, Uncertain Times

March 3, 2016 Nicole Hemsoth 1

Multi-million dollar decisions about investing in high performance computing systems are never taken lightly, but in the oil and gas industry, which is going through one of its worst crises in history, uncertainty reigns—at least in terms of the future outlook. …

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Dell Engineers An HPC Market Expansion

November 24, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

It is hard to say exactly how much infrastructure revenue went up for grabs when IBM sold off its System x division to Lenovo last year, but in the HPC market, if you look at the data from IDC and Intersect360, which do detailed tracking of HPC organizations in terms of revenues and installed base, the numbers are not small. …

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A Cloudy Outlook for Oil and Gas Simulations

May 14, 2015 Nicole Hemsoth 0

With the oil and gas industry continuing to spend on massive supercomputers, even in the wake of declining revenues, and no sign of the HPC business slowing for the oil and gas segment, one has to wonder what alternatives on the hardware and software front these companies might look to as costs (for both systems and the power required to support them) drives skywards. …

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Why Big Oil Keeps Spending on Massive Supercomputers

April 21, 2015 Laura Shepard, Chirag Dekate, Ph.D., Shreyak Shah, 0

With per barrel oil prices down by about 50 percent from the previous four years, the question naturally arises: “Why are oil and gas giants spending millions on new supercomputers?” …

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What’s Really Driving HPC Decisions in Oil and Gas?

April 6, 2015 Nicole Hemsoth 1

Not long ago, we learned that a new Cray XC40 supercomputer would be installed in the coming months for Norwegian oil and gas processing company Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS). …

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Cray Details New Five Petaflop Oil and Gas Supercomputer

March 24, 2015 Nicole Hemsoth 0

Another large-scale supercomputer devoted to oil and gas exploration will be coming to market in Norway within the year, marking a sizable commercial HPC deal for Cray. …

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