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Paradigm, the premier provider of advanced petroleum geoscience and drilling technology to the oil and gas exploration and production industry, and Silicon Graphics announce that Paradigm's new epos 3.0-based product suite is now available on the Intel Itanium 2 processor-based SGI Altix system. The latest versions of Paradigm's industry-leading solutions, running on the recently released epos 3.0 data management and interoperability integration framework, offer complete workflows, from seismic data processing and imaging, through interpretation and visualization, to reservoir characterization, petrophysics, well planning and drilling, in a single environment. The epos 3.0 framework enhances personal productivity through seamless application workflows, comprehensive data integration and a unified 3D visualization canvas. The SGI Altix family combines SGI's supercomputing architecture with Intel Itanium 2 processors and the Linux(R) operating system. The SGI Altix 3000 platform boasts the combined speed of SGI's shared-memory NUMAflex(TM) architecture with the power of Intel Itanium 2 microarchitecture to create an open-source Linux environment. The SGI Altix family is designed to help SGI customers in the oil and gas market master their toughest problems and achieve breakthrough results with a 64-bit scalable architecture. Duane Dopkin, Senior VP Technologies at Paradigm, said, "The availability of our epos 3.0-based products on the Altix platform is a natural outcome of our commitment to support the broadest range of high performance computing for our customers. The power of our leading-edge solutions on the Altix server allows us to exploit the 64-bit memory addressing of this scalable Linux solution, providing our customers with greater flexibility in deploying our E&P technologies, and more productivity in executing them". "SGI is pleased to join Paradigm in announcing the release of epos on the Altix platform, the first major commercial seismic processing suite to be offered on this award-winning system," said Bill Bartling, Senior Director, Market Strategy at SGI. "The combination of Paradigm's leading seismic data management, processing, modeling and visualization software with SGI's record- setting Linux computational system sets an improved standard for depth imaging and enables our customers to meet their challenges of imaging complex subsurface geometries in their prospects and oilfields with unprecedented speed and accuracy". "The Itanium 2 processor has become increasingly significant for the energy upstream market, due to its large memory addressability for increasingly demanding seismic imaging, visualization and reservoir simulations," said Dick Bland, Worldwide Energy Industry Director for Intel Corporation. "Its affordable price and high performance make it a logical choice for E&P companies."