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Paradigm, the premier provider of advanced petroleum geoscience and engineering technology to the oil and gas exploration and production industry, announces that its industry-leading solutions are now available on AMD Opteron processor-based Linux systems, in full 64-bit mode. Paradigm's epos integration framework-based, full product suite includes industry-leading solutions in Seismic Data Processing and Imaging; Visualization and Interpretation; Earth Modeling and Reservoir Characterization. For Seismic Data Processing and Imaging solutions, the availability of AMD Opteron processor-based HPC clusters that combine low cost with high-performance floating point operations and 64-bit computing, offers significant advantages over traditional 32-bit-only cluster computing. For the Visualization, Interpretation & Earth Modeling Solutions, desktop and server systems based on AMD64 technology enjoy the cost benefits associated with high-volume PC industry standards, as opposed to traditional proprietary systems. Duane Dopkin, Senior Vice-President of Technology, stated, "The availability of our leading products on AMD Opteron processor-based systems is another step in our continued efforts to provide our customers with the most advanced hardware platforms for our software. AMD64 technology has evolved the industry-standard 32-bit x86 architecture to support the demanding 64-bit environment, and Paradigm's 64-bit, Linux-based versions of its full suite of productivity solutions leverage the strong capabilities offered by these systems." "The availability of Paradigm's flagship product suite in 64-bit mode for the Linux and AMD64 platform is great news for the oil and gas industry," said Ben Williams, Vice President for enterprise and server/workstation business at AMD. "This industry's computational requirements for intense visualization and modeling need the increased memory capacity, reduced latency and 64-bit capability of the AMD Opteron processor. Paradigm is delivering their customers a great platform option for taking the Paradigm epos suite to the next level of performance." Background: Paradigm provides information solutions to the leaders of the oil and gas industry worldwide. The company has a global network of sales, services and user support, with 23 offices in 20 countries, serving all major oil and gas producing provinces in the world. Paradigm's advanced set of Software Solutions and Integrated Services for prospect generation and evaluation supports every stage in the oil and gas E&P process, from Data Processing and Imaging; through advanced Visualization, Interpretation and Earth Modeling; to Reservoir Characterization and Petrophysics; up to Petroleum Engineering, Well Planning and Drilling. These solutions are supported by the epos Data Management and Interoperability integration framework.