A decade of HPC in oil

CGG has always been at the forefront of industrial High Perfor­mance Computing (HPC) architectures: we were operating vector supercomputers (Convex, Cray and NEC) in the early 1990s, and large parallel supercomputers (Convex SPP, IBM SP, Sgi Origin) by the end of that decade. At the turn of the millennium, we were pioneering the use of commodity clusters, and started to add accelerators a couple of years later, even before GPGPU programming languages formally emerged.