HOUSTON, TX -- 10/26/09 --
SEG 2009 -- NVIDIA announced today that Hess
Corp., a leading global independent energy company, is using HP Z800 workstations
outfitted with NVIDIA® Quadro®
graphics processing units (GPUs) and NVIDIA SLI®
Multi-OS technology to investigate reducing IT costs while increasing
productivity for geosciences professionals.
Leveraging virtualization technologies from NVIDIA, Parallels and others,
the HP Z800 workstation delivers the speed and expandability that oil and
gas professionals can fully utilize to tackle their biggest challenges.
"In our constantly challenging and highly competitive business environment,
cost-effective, flexible, powerful IT solutions are critically important,"
said Jeff Davis, manager, Technical Computing, at Hess. "We are examining
how the HP Z800 workstation, bolstered by the technologies incorporated in
it from NVIDIA, can help us with our ongoing exploration efforts."
NVIDIA SLI Multi-OS enables Hess to run both Microsoft Windows and Red Hat
Enterprise Linux simultaneously on a single workstation.
Using Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (Intel VT-d)
hardware acceleration, SLI Multi-OS allows Hess to directly assign NVIDIA
Quadro graphics processing units (GPUs) to virtual machines -- a
breakthrough capability for graphics-intensive applications.
Parallels Workstation 4.0 Extreme is the first high-end workstation
virtualization solution to offer users near-native performance for
graphics-intensive applications. The product leverages the key
virtualization technologies enabled by NVIDIA and Intel to deliver highly
performing virtual machines for the most demanding visualization
applications.
"Instead of running applications on different machines, and moving data
back and forth over the network, SLI Multi-OS radically streamlines users'
workflows and instantly enhances productivity," said Jeff Brown, general
manager, NVIDIA Professional Solutions Group. "We believe Hess' use of
fully virtualized workstations will make their employees more efficient,
while lowering the total cost of ownership."
HP and NVIDIA will be demonstrating the HP Z800 workstation powered by
Quadro professional graphics solutions and SLI Multi-OS technology, Intel
VT-d and Parallels Workstation 4.0 Extreme, at the Society of Exploration
Geophysicists International Exposition (SEG 2009) at the George R. Brown
Convention Center, Houston, TX, in the HP booth, #631, October 26th through
29th.
The SLI Multi-OS capability is available on the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800,
Quadro FX 4800, and Quadro FX 5800 graphics solutions and supports selected
combinations of Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Linux operating systems. For
more information on SLI Multi-OS, please visit:
www.nvidia.com/object/sli_multi_os.html.
For more information on NVIDIA Quadro solutions, please visit:
www.nvidia.com/quadro.
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) awakened the world to the power of computer graphics
when it invented the graphics processing unit (GPU) in 1999. Since then, it
has consistently set new standards in visual computing with breathtaking,
interactive graphics available on devices ranging from portable media
players to notebooks to workstations. NVIDIA's expertise in programmable
GPUs has led to breakthroughs in parallel processing which make
supercomputing inexpensive and widely accessible. Fortune magazine has
ranked NVIDIA #1 in innovation in the semiconductor industry for two years
in a row. For more information, see www.nvidia.com.
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capabilities of NVIDIA GPUs and SLI Multi-OS technology are forward-looking
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of more efficient or faster technology; design, manufacturing or software
defects; the impact of technological development and competition; changes
in consumer preferences and demands; customer adoption of different
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interfaces; unexpected loss of performance of our products or technologies
when integrated into systems as well as other factors detailed from time to
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Commission including its Form 10-Q for the fiscal period ended July 26,
2009. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are posted on our website and
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update these forward-looking statements to reflect future events or
circumstances.
For more information, contact:
Mark Priscaro
NVIDIA Corporation
(408) 486-2438
mpriscaro@nvidia.com
