Fujitsu Siemens Computers awarded ADCO workstations deal

The CELSIUS V830 workstation, which supports latest Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor Models 275, 270 and 265, offering the market's best overall performance and performance-per-watt, will be used to run ADCO's Petroleum Development geophysical applications and geological & reservoir modelling tools on both Linux and 64bit Windows.

"We needed a workstation that was powerful enough to run our high-end seismic and modelling applications which could be seamlessly integrated into our existing environment, whilst also meeting our stringent needs in cost and reliability," said Masoud Al-Mughairy, Team Leader (IS/IT), ADCO Petroleum Development Division. "The CELSIUS workstation powered by AMD's Opteron processor more than meets these criteria and will be important in the development of our technical platform."

Fujitsu Siemens Computers' CELSIUS V830 workstations benefits from the AMD-8132™ chipset component Hyper Transport™ technology which enables high-performance PCI-X 2.0 connectivity to AMD Opteron processor-based systems providing increased throughput, improved RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) capabilities, robust data management and investigation.

"The CELSIUS V830 workstation has been designed to deliver the best performance for the workstation industry's most demanding applications such as those which ADCO Petroleum Development Division currently uses," said Fadi Helou, Fujitsu Siemens Sales Manager Large Enterprise. "This machine creates an innovative workstation platform that provides the performance and reliability enterprise customers' demand."

A key CELSIUS workstation benefit for ADCO is the ability to run intensive 3-D modelling applications directly from user desktops and also in ADCO's Virtual Reality Centre "The Majlis"; users will be able to utilize the power of NVIDIA's Latest Quadro FX4500 graphics processor and visualize immersive 3-D stereo applications using specialized goggles.

Fujitsu Services, a major international Enterprise Partner of Fujitsu Siemens Computers in Europe, Middle East and Africa, has successfully deployed, installed and configured the CELSIUS V830 workstations on Linux Enterprise WS and Microsoft Windows XP 64bit Operating systems in close collaboration with ADCO Petroleum Development Division's technical team.

This complete solution provides ADCO full operating system flexibility and diversity in order to meet its ongoing demands for all the advanced software packages used by ADCO.

"Long years of experience with the Oil and Gas sector and our partnership with Fujitsu Siemens Computers and AMD have allowed us to offer a turnkey solution fully tailored to ADCO requirements," said Ivan Shishkov, Enterprise Sales Manager of Fujitsu Services UAE.