Industrial Seismic Imaging on Commodity Supercomputers: A Success Story

Seismic Imaging Computation bound

Amerada Hess Beowulf history

Questions Success or failure?

Performance Measures Internal Benchmarks

System Growth Performance-to-price ratio

Moore’s Law Performance-to-price ratio

Questions Standard supercomputer?

Questions Desired functionality?

Amerada Hess Beowulf 96 Pentium II & III nodes

Amerada Hess Beowulf Back of Dell Beowulf

Amerada Hess Beowulf Single Dell Node

Amerada Hess Beowulf Single Dell Node