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BP to Build Facility to House World's Largest Supercomputer
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BP has begun construction of a new facility to house the largest supercomputing complex for commercial research in the world, a project that will keep BP at the forefront of seismic imaging technology and be a critical tool in its global hunt for oil and natural gas in coming years.
The new High-Performance Computing (HPC) center, scheduled to open mid-2013 at BP’s Westlake Campus in Houston, will serve as a worldwide hub for processing and managing huge amounts of geologic and seismic data from across BP’s portfolio and enable scientists to produce clear images of rock structures deep underground.
It will play a key role in identifying potential exploration targets from the Gulf of Mexico to Azerbaijan. With added computing power, the center will also help teams work more efficiently…
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