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Photos: Missile detecting DEC computer
Photo Several of these machines were set up with seismic arrays around the world. This machine, using its seismic sensors, tracked where the Jaguar had actually hit the ground with sufficient force to create a... [16 Sep 2008]
Legal Eye: Trademark landmark
Comment It's clear there have been some seismic shifts in the trademark ecosystem in recent months. A major European ruling involving mobile operators O2 and 3 has big implications for trademarks on comparative advertising... [16 Jul 2008]
Constraints on Mantle Strain from Seismic and Electrical Anisotropy
White Paper In the present study, new shear-wave splitting measurements across the Great Slave Lake shear zone (GSLsz), NWT, are compared with previously reported electrical anisotropy parameters [Jones and Ferguson 1997] as a direct test the... [03 Jul 2008]
The Evolution of Seismic Processing Powered by High Performance Computing
White Paper This document provides a brief discussion for alternative solutions for high performance computing in seismic processing. It identifies and compares six major eras of high-performance hardware and then examines... [03 Jul 2008]
The Effects of Near-Surface Velocity Contrasts on Three-Component Seismic Measurements
White Paper This white paper first shows the characteristics of the overburden and of the Paleozoic bedrock in terms of seismic velocities and relative density. Changes in wavefront direction are then assessed by studying a bedrock... [03 Jul 2008]
Lithospheric Architecture at the Rae-Hearne Boundary Revealed through Magnetotelluric and Seismic Experiments
White Paper We present and discuss the results from the collocated teleseismic and MT experiments, demonstrating that the dominant geophysical crustal boundary in the region exists at Baker Lake, whereas the mantle boundary appears to be further to... [03 Jul 2008]
The Electric Moho
White Paper Since Mohorovicic discovered a dramatic increase in compressional seismic velocity at a depth of 54 km beneath the Kulpa Valley in Croatia, the “Moho” has become arguably the most important seismological horizon in the... [03 Jul 2008]
Reducing Oil Exploration Risk by Improving Calculations for Seismic Survey Designs
White Paper To reduce the risks involved in exploratory drilling, seismic surveys are done to gather data for 3D models used to understand the size and location of oil fields (or squeeze more oil out of existing reservoirs). [11 Jun 2008]
Legal Eye: Could you end up footing your e-crime bill?
Comment In essence, the Banking Code does not represent a seismic shift in liability. What the code has to say about online customers paying for fraudulent transactions on their accounts is worth reading carefully, says lawyer... [15 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 29.02.08
Round-Up As the news sent shockwaves across the globe, the Round-Up was delighted to note that at a press conference announcing the seismic shift, CEO Steve Ballmer and his co-joined executives decided they would eschew ties to... [29 Feb 2008]
Power in the Data Center: Oil & Gas Industry
White Paper Energy companies that rely upon seismic information to extract increasingly difficult-to-reach reserves are demanding higher levels of compute power to process multi-terabyte data sets. Yet many are finding that the... [15 Feb 2008]
Top 10 government IT stories of the year
News Undoubtedly, the fall-out from HM Revenue & Customs' loss of two discs containing 25 million child benefit records has reverberated throughout the public sector with seismic proportions. The year was dominated by stories... [19 Dec 2007]
Vector Seismic Data Processing, Inc. -- Refining Data Protection
White Paper Challenge: Protecting Vector Seismic Data Processing's Exchange Server data pertaining to customer projects and leads, as well as internal business data, without hiring a full-time IT person to handle backup and recovery. [25 Sep 2007]
Performance Study of Organization and Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks
White Paper It can also enhance the energy efficiency and a lifetime of large sensor networks typically deployed in sensitive environments, such as seismic zones, or in smart environments. Clustering is a proven method for enhancing... [31 Aug 2007]
Apache Corporation Energizes Exploration With NetApp Storage and Disk-to-Disk Backup
White Paper The company wanted to implement a storage architecture to meet performance demands of seismic processing and cluster-based computing; enable remote-office backup and off-site data protection for global enterprise; reduce... [20 Jul 2007]
