Shell Canada went large in January's bid round on four deepwater blocks off Nova Scotia, committing to almost $1B in exploration expenditures over the next five years. Not literally, but there's a small new flame at any rate. I wonder if they have a mixing board yet? Nova Scotia deepwater on fire

If the press release is anything to go by, and it probably isn't, Total seems to have reservoir modeling in mind, not just seismic processing. At 2.3 petaflops (quadrillion floating-point operations per second) this new ICE X machine will be easily one of the most powerful computers in the world. Much bigger than a refrigerator, and much more expensive than $1M. Remember SGI? You know, giant blue refrigeratory thing with 12GB of RAM in the back of the viz room, cost about $1M? Completely wiped out by the Linux PC about 10 years ago? Well, not completely: SGI just sold to Total E&P a giant computer.

Labeling with ads, presumably.Īs the new iPad now totes a screen with more pixels than the monitor you’re looking at, it’s clear that mobile devices are changing everything there is to change about computing.Īnother SGI ICE, NASA's Pleiades is one of the top ten clusters in the world at 1.4 Pflops. The general idea is that they connect to your Android phone for communications services, and sit on your face labeling things in the real world, in real time. Now, news is growing that Google's mysterious X lab is developing some similar-sounding glasses. The technology is comingĪ few weeks ago we posted a video of a new augmented reality monocle. Get an account here or click on the illusion. We use it every single day for personal and project stuff. Files are accessible from anywhere, and can be shared with a simple web link. If you're not a Dropbox user already, you are missing out on an amazing file storage and transfer tool. Dropbox just updated their web interface. See the conspicuous ad (right) for more info. It's a technical writing course, but it's not really about technical writing-it's about get more people writing more stuff. Matt's writing course is on offer again at the CSPG-CSEG-CWLS GeoConvention in Calgary in May. Seen something cool? Tip us off.įirst, a quick plug. The same sort of news - technology with subsurface application. News of the week was maybe a little ambitious, so we're going to scale back to a monthly post.

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