Items tagged with GeoStar
And here you were thinking that NVIDIA was stretching its bounds by dabbling in the CPU and nettop arenas. Today -- out of nowhere, really -- NVIDIA has jointly announced with GeoStar that its hardware and software solution will "transform seismic computation for oil and gas companies in China." Bold words, huh?As the story goes, GeoStar is a leading Chinese geophysical services provider, and it's planning to utilize NVIDIA's Tesla GPUs to push its seismic software suite and "dramatically accelerates the performance of complex seismic data." By linking up with NVIDIA, the computation of large datasets generated by searching the earth for oil deposits can be achieved in smaller, more power efficient...
Read more...
