Geophysics Research Facilities

Hardware

• Ocean-Bottom Instrumentation Consortium
• Smartseis 24 Channel data logger with geophone strings for high-resolution seismic reflection and refraction
• LaCoste-Romberg geodetic gravimeter

Computing

• A data server with 40Tb of on-line storage plus tape i/o (LTO3, SDLT, DLT, DAT, Exabtye)
• software servers with Landmark software (with commercial value of $2M) and Schlumberger software (with commercial value of $1M):
  • ProMAX 2D, 3D, PSDM, MVA, VSP
  • Promagic
  • GeoProbe
  • SeisWorks 2D, 3D
  • StratWorks 2D, 3D
  • GeoFrame
  • InsideReality
  • Claritas
  • Traptester

• 64-bit graphics server with a state-of-the-art Nvidia Quadro FX 4500 graphics card connected 3D visualisation suite;
• a preferencial share in Hamilton, a largely SRIF funded 231 dual node AMD Opteron CPU high-performance parallel computer;
  Linux, UNIX workstations.