From an NVIDIA Press Release:

SANTA CLARA, CA-OCTOBER 29, 2008- Houston-based SeismicCity announced today that it is using NVIDIA®® Tesla™ S1070 1U systems for Reverse Time Migration (RTM) – one of the most advanced seismic imaging techniques ever used by the oil and gas industry. SeismicCity selected the NVIDIA Tesla S1070 as it offered the fastest and most scalable implementation to run these complex algorithms enabling discovery of new oil and gas reserves faster.

“Last year, SeismicCity migrated its depth imaging system from a 1,000-core CPU based configuration to a configuration based on NVIDIA Tesla 1U systems,” said Claude Pignol, vice president of technology at SeismicCity. “NVIDIA’s advancements in GPU Computing are a major breakthrough. Transitioning to GPUs has given us a 10-20X performance boost, but more importantly, GPUs allow us to use computationally-intensive algorithms that we simply couldn’t process with CPUs. This is a huge advancement which allows us to use RTM and other more accurate but data-intensive algorithms for larger datasets.”

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