Abstract

E & P organizations are typically characterized as the ones, needing computers capable of handling extremely large DATA volumes. Seismic data processing & interpretation is the most essential domain, which dictates the most crucial corporate decision of final drilling activity. Any wrong decision in this regard will severely affect the organization, on account of the cost involved in the drilling operations. This paper deals with the challenges involved in the emerging technologies, for compute intensive jobs like for E&P organizations, to meet the huge seismic data processing and visualization requirements. The old legacy systems for processing of the data were typically the mainframe systems of 1980