PolyServe, Inc. today announces that its VP of Storage Solutions, Carter George, will speak at World Oil's 2006 Visualization and Workflow Showcase for the Oil & Gas Industry on Thursday, September 7 at the Hilton Post Oak in Houston. The presentation will include an overview of next-generation cluster file systems (CFSs) and how they meet both the high-performance requirements of the central compute cluster and the ease-of-use, fault-tolerance, and ruggedness requirements of the remote processing center with limited staff. High-performance and high-throughput computing solutions are critical for data-center processing in the oil and gas industry. Technologies such as computer clustering enable the processing of seismic data, often collected worldwide, to help determine the presence and location of oil deposits. Senior-level executives from end-user companies will gather at the conference to hear about new product developments capable of addressing the high-performance computing needs of the oil and gas industry. WHEN: September 7, 1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m., IT Track SUMMARY: Cluster-based Storage Configuration Seismic processing and visualization applications need access to more and more data, especially as analysis includes the time dimension of data. Traditional file serving technologies cannot meet the throughput demands of large seismic compute clusters, and many of those now use cluster or distributed file system technologies to be able to feed massive compute clusters. But what about smaller, in-field visualization clusters and seismic processing in smaller sites around the world? Historically, CFSs have been too complex and difficult to deploy in places like Port Harcourt, the North Slope, or Tripoli. Next- generation CFSs now can meet both the high-performance requirements of the central compute cluster and the ease-of- use, fault-tolerance, and ruggedness requirements of the remote processing center with limited staff. LOCATION: Hilton Post Oak 2001 Post Oak Blvd Houston, Texas 77056 713-961-9300 EVENTWeb site.