Geoscience technology company CGG is expanding its high-performance computing (HPC) capacity with a new hub in the UK. The company recently signed a lease for the hub that it claims will boost its computing ability by 100 petaflops.
“The expansion of our HPC capability at this new UK facility supports both the continued advance of our industry-leading subsurface imaging technology and services as well as the growth of our specialized HPC offerings to new and existing clients in the energy, environmental, and other industry sectors,” said Peter Whiting, CGG’s executive vice president for geoscience.
CGG said it expects the hub planned for southeast England to be operational by 2023. The company said in a press release that the hub will be powered completely by renewable energy in an effort to meet its goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2050.
The new hub will take advantage of CGG’s experience with liquid cooling and full-immersion environments at its Houston facility, the company said, to increase power density and efficiency.
The expansion “reflects CGG’s strategy of continued leadership in specialized digital sciences, through the dedication of considerable resources, R&D efforts, and partnership initiatives to deliver highly differentiated digital capabilities that address our clients’ advanced HPC, software, cloud, and digital transformation requirements,” Whiting said.