[Beowulf] Fwd: Project Natick

[John Hearns]

Stuart Midgley works for DUG?  They are currently recruiting for an HPC
manager in London... Interesting...

On 7 June 2018 at 23:32, Chris Samuel <chris at csamuel.org> wrote:

> On Friday, 8 June 2018 1:38:11 AM AEST John Hearns via Beowulf wrote:
>
> > The report interestingly makes a comparison to cruise lines and the US
> Navy
> > having large IT infrastructures at sea.
>
> Some oil & gas companies have HPC systems onboard their survey vessels to
> process data at sea.   One example from Australia:
>
> https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/01/08/hpc-optimizes-
> energy-exploration-oil-gas-startups/
>
> # DUG provides hardware and software to marine geophysical company
> Polarcus*,
> # fitting out its fleet of seagoing vessels for marine seismic data
> acquisition.
> # Dr. Stuart Midgley, DUG’s systems architect, notes that space is very
> # limited on each vessel, so the onboard supercomputing system must be
> # extremely powerful for data processing and imaging, yet consume minimal
> # electrical power and occupy a limited footprint.
>
> cheers.
> Chris
> --
>  Chris Samuel  :  http://www.csamuel.org/  :  Melbourne, VIC
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