03.62.2016 - AMD GPUOpen Fuels Seismic Supercomputing Efforts for Geoscience Leader CGG With Open Source Software and AMD FirePro GPUs

CGG Speeds Energy Research Using AMD GPUOpen to Move to Open Source and Power More Than 1 PetaFLOPS Using AMD FirePro(TM) S9150 GPUs SUNNYVALE, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 03/02/16 -- AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced that CGG, a pioneering global geophysical services and equipment company, has deployed AMD FirePro™ S9150 server GPUs to accelerate its geoscience oil and gas research efforts, harnessing more than 1 PetaFLOPS of GPU processing power. Employing AMD's HPC GPU Computing software tools available on GPUOpen.com, CGG rapidly converted its in-house Nvidia CUDA code to OpenCL™ for seismic data processing running on an AMD FirePro™ S9150 GPU production cluster, enabling fast, cost-effect... - View Press Release - Visit AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.)