Sun serves Landmark CAF (September 2001)
Sun has leveraged technology acquired from LSC to underpin Landmarks new entry-level visualization environment. The Landmark CAF is already in use by Unocal, and in Landmarks Calgary offices.Earlier this year, Sun Microsystems acquired Large Storage Configuration (LSC) for $74 million. LSC develops high-performance file systems and data storage software notably the SAM FS hierarchical storage manager used by many large scale data management solutions such as GeoQuests PowerHouse. The heterogeneous storage array network (SAN) is now fully Sun-supported and offers scalable hierarchical management for high performance computing (HPC) environments. Network speeds of over 2GB/s are supported and the system consolidates fragmented architectures from vendors such as SGI, Sun, HP, Compaq and IBM. Sun Energy Industry manager Nick Weston told PDM Sun is increasingly moving into a systems integrator role with a typical installation involving SGI, AIX machines. With Sun SAM FS, all these systems can see the same data without duplication.
Kirchoff
The technology has been put to use in a new Decisionarium environment, originally developed for Unocal. Ultrasparc III-based Sun Blade 1000 workstation run EarthCube and OpenVision, optimized for Sun hardware. Unocals project leader Scharine Kirchoff said, Immersive environments are essential to our work. The Landmark solution on the Sun platform gives us the performance of a high-end, million dollar solution, without breaking the bank.
Calgary CAF
The system dubbed the Collaborative Application Fusion Environment CAFɒ is also used by Landmark in Calgary with visualization technology from Panoram and Trimension. Landmark president and CEO John Gibson said, The E&P industry in Canada is facing ever increasing complexity in its exploration and exploitation activities. Collaborative visualization will help lower their finding, lifting and development costs.
Cuthill
Landmark Canada boss Darcy Cuthill said The CAF represents a major investment for the benefit of our customers who now have access to a collaborative visualization environment. The Landmark CAF is now available to all Landmark customers without any facility rental cost, and may be booked through Landmarks Calgary office. Landmark's team of consultants is available to assist clients in gaining maximum productivity from the CAF .