As the world's energy consumption continues to rise and as science learns more about the structure of the earth, geophysical research demands even more from its high-performance computing applications. Because geophysics is an ever-advancing science, both keeping up with the changes in cutting-edge technology and anticipating what's coming in the future, researchers need the latest advances in equipment design for the most demanding high-performance technical computing applications.

Geophysical exploration is a highly specialized art requiring technology solutions that are equally as unique. For companies in the oil and gas industry, the costs and risks associated with doing business are often high, since exploration applications are regarded as some of the most complex and compute-intensive in the world. Aspen Systems Beowulf clusters deliver real business results. Our systems provide excellent performance for tasks such as seismic acquisition and imaging, visualization, and compositing. Aspen Systems Beowulf clusters offer every aspect of supercomputing -- processing power, scalability, reliability, and simple cluster management tools -- for a much lower cost than a conventional supercomputer.

As the amount of seismic data collected grows, the petroleum industry needs systems that can rapidly process this information. Traditionally, supercomputers have been used to process this information. Aspen Systems Beowulf clusters can perform these same calculations with the same or better performance at about one-tenth the cost. Because petroleum analysis is a highly computational, parallel problem, cluster systems excel at this type of application.

Beowulf clusters have progressed from research environments into mainstream computing centers to become the workhorse of many seismic applications. Simply put, Aspen Systems Beowulf clusters network multiple processors together to form a unified and more powerful system. Almost every major exploration group now boasts a cluster of dozens, if not hundreds, of these processors or "nodes".

Please request a Beowulf cluster quote online or contact Aspen Systems sales if you are interested in a custom Beowulf cluster tuned for your specific industry or scientific application.