Innovation | Viridien

The Clusters Take Over: Look Ma, No Hands!

8 minutes read

How did experimental PC clusters become industrial HPC at scale? Laurent Clerc reflects on Viridien’s early adoption of Linux and commodity computing, and how the shift from proprietary systems to clusters transformed seismic imaging and high-performance computing at scale.

Innovation

The Supercomputers Era: My God, It’s Full of Flops

10 minutes read

#HPC

When Cray entered the picture, big, heavy and expensive, nothing else quite looked like that. We were no longer talking about a useful computer in the corner of a processing center; we were talking about supercomputers that changed the scale of what CGG could do.

Innovation

The Perkin-Elmer Years: When Intuition Stopped Being Enough

6 minutes read

#HPC

In our early, pre-computer days, processing teams could get far with curiosity and a bit of trial-and-error — and some did, for a while. But the real change, the point where our work started to look like the industrial, scalable model we rely on at Viridien today, came when the Perkin-Elmer machines showed up in the late 1970s: 32-bit minicomputers with early integrated circuits, replacing earlier digital systems built on discrete transistors and small-scale integration, which had in turn succeeded the analog equipment of the 1950s.

Innovation

Films and Paper Strips to Magnetic Tape - Where Our Computing Mindset Began

4 minutes read

#HPC

Before HPC had a name, we were already exploring the Earth. When people ask Laurent Clerc where Viridien’s computing story began, he doesn’t start with Cray supercomputers or GPU clusters. He starts in the desert, with stories told to me by retiring old-timers when I joined the company, then called CGG, more than 35 years ago.

Innovation

10 Questions with Viridien’s UK HPC Hub Team

9 minutes read

#HPC, #Collaboration

Exemplifying Viridien's commitment to innovation and sustainability, the talented team behind the groundbreaking UK HPC Hub discuss their roles in developing the unique facility and the features that make it truly different.

Innovation

Earth Data Intelligence: The Future of AI in Geosciences

4 minutes read

#AI, #WeAreProblemSolvers

Song Hou, head of Viridien’s AI Lab, shares his insights into recent developments in AI, the Lab's current projects, and his vision for the future of geoscience-focused AI.