Real Time Visualization -- Mitsubishi Electric US, Template Graphics Software and Seismic Micro-Technology Inc., Introduce a Visualization Performance Tool for the Oil/Gas Industry.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers The Society of Exploration Geophysicists The Society of Exploration Geophysicists (or SEG) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the science of geophysics and the education of exploration geophysicists. Annual Convention CALGARY, Alberta--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 4, 2000 Real Time Visualization (RTViz), a division of Mitsubishi Electric Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (三菱電機株式会社 & Electronics USA Inc., Template Graphics Software (TGS TGS Tokyo Game Show TGS Ticket-Granting Service TGS Ticket-granting Server TGS The Good Shepherd TGS Teen Girl Squad TGS The Gargoyles Saga TGS Texas Gourd Society TGS Tomato Growers Supply TGS Trinity Grammar School TGS Tomographic Gamma Scanner ), Seismic Micro-Technology, Inc. (SMT (1) (Surface Mount Technology) See surface mount. (2) (Station ManagemenT) An FDDI network management protocol that provides direct management. Only one node requires the software. SMT - Station Management ) and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Friday announced a breakthrough in high performance graphics for the oil and gas industry. In the past, the high cost of multi-million dollar visualization rooms restricted this technology to just a few multinationals. Now, oil and gas professionals can take advantage of large-scale visualization using the price and performance advantages of personal computers. This innovative package includes software and specialized volume-rendering hardware on a high-performance IBM IntelliStation The IBM IntelliStation workstation class personal computer was announced March 1997 as the follow-on to the IBM PC Series 360 and 365. In February 2002 POWER processor based workstations, which where previously sold directly under the eServer pSeries brand, where also placed under PC, integrated with the latest visualization capabilities, to deliver an integrated platform for advanced geoscience ge·o·sci·ence n. Any one of the sciences, such as geology or geochemistry, that deals with the earth. ge analysis and interpretation. In essence, it presents a workstation tool to geoscientists used for interpreting large-scale, three-dimensional seismic data sets at a faster, real-time rate to target seismic applications. This new solution offers a graphics package for visualizing large seismic volumes along with geophysical, geological and petrophysical data and interpretation. Seismic reflection cubes of earth are displayed as three-dimensional interactive computer images which are manipulated and analyzed to develop a realistic model of the earth's geology. When seismic reflection cubes are displayed over an oil and gas reservoir gas reservoir In geology, a naturally occurring storage area, characteristically a folded rock formation, that traps and holds natural gas. The reservoir rock must be permeable and porous to contain the gas, and it has to be capped by impervious rock in order to form an , the trajectories of boreholes are also drawn three dimensionally. In this way, the orientation, size and characteristics of a reservoir is revealed in relation to both current hydrocarbon production and regional geology. This greatly advances resource management. RTViz, a division of Mitsubishi Electric, introduced the first 3D voxel-based hardware graphics board capable of rendering large volume data sets. VolumePro(TM), the PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). board developed by RTViz, works in conjunction with TGS's Open Inventor Open Inventor, originally IRIS Inventor, is a C++ object oriented retained mode 3D graphics API designed by SGI to provide a higher layer of programming for OpenGL. Its main goals are better programmer convenience and efficiency. OI for short. 2.6 software. TGS has built Open Inventor on top of the industry standard OpenGL graphics language for sophisticated graphics applications. With the increased complexity of 3D seismic interpretation, the need to improve user productivity becomes even more critical. Data sets continue to expand in size, complexity and density. Along with this expansion comes the need to search, identify, quantify and fully interpret both routine structural shapes and detailed seismic attributes. The power of the VolumePro(TM) 500 PCI board, available with up to 256MB of volume memory on a single board, allows interactive support of these important functions. Multiple boards can work together to store a minimum of twice as much volume data. SMT is the market leader for geological and geophysical interpretation software on the PC platform. All previous visualization elements, including well data, conventional vertical seismic displays and timeslices, interpreted seismic horizons and faults and surface geographical boundary lines are displayed within the voxel cube. VuPAK, SMT's three-dimensional visualization package, includes full voxel rendering capabilities. Any seismic volume may be quickly scanned with slice animations, chair-cut and oblique-cut displays. Its full opacity Refers to being "opaque," which means to prevent light from shining through. For example, in an image editing program, the opacity level for some function might range from completely transparent (0) to completely opaque (100). and color controls simplify the analysis of subtle anomalies. Volume rendering Volume rendering is a technique used to display a 2D projection of a 3D discretely sampled data set. A typical 3D data set is a group of 2D slice images acquired by a CT or MRI scanner. Usually these are acquired in a regular pattern (e.g. has begun to be broadly adopted as a valuable visualization technique. With SMT's VuPAK, TGS's Open Inventor 2.6 and RTViz's VolumePro 500 visualization card on the IBM high-performance workstation, users experience impressive real-time visualization in a geoscience application on affordable PC hardware. IBM brings to this solution a PC platform with advanced architecture for optimized, high-performance visualization graphics. This platform includes dual 800MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. CPUs, 1Gb of RAM, an 18Gb hard disk for storage, and a 133MHz bus to move vast volumes of data quickly between components. IBM is a leader in delivering graphics that meet the special needs of the oil and gas industry, which require dual graphics screens. This package includes dual Wildcat 4110 video cards for drawing on a 2560 x 1026 pixel dual screens. About Real Time Visualization Real Time Visualization (RTViz), a division of Mitsubishi Electric and with headquarters in Concord, Mass., has pioneered the commercialization of real time 3D volume rendering PC hardware. Its first product, VolumePro(TM), has been shipping to users since May 1999 and won numerous industry awards for product innovation for 3D graphics hardware development. RTViz sells to OEMs and systems integrators from industries that cover a broad range of vertical markets, including medical, geophysical, scientific, industrial, simulation, research and others. For more information, visit www.rtviz.com. About Template Graphics Software Template Graphics Software (TGS) has been a leading vendor of interactive graphics software for more than 15 years. TGS is based in San Diego with offices located throughout the world, including European headquarters in Bordeaux, France. TGS provides a broad range of 2D and 3D graphics software tools, utilities and applications for UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and PC systems. For more information about TGS Inc. or its products, visit www.tgs.com. Note to Editors: All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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