IBM Corp says it has been granted the first CoCom licence for an IBM vector processor supercomputer in Eastern Europe. IBM Russia recently opened the computer centre of the Moscow-based Central Geophysical Expedition Organisation, founded to establish a full function petroleum application and data service for the oil industry. The project involves the support of 30 oil-producing enterprises and the Russian Central government. IBM is the main project partner of the Organisation providing technical and industry support and project management through IBM’s European Petroleum Application Centre in Stavanger, Norway. The centre provides a range of technical and commercial petroleum exploration and production services. The computer environment will be an IBM ES/9000 vector processor and a cluster of RS/6000 processors. The software installed at the centre includes Schlumberger GeoQuest and reservoir simulation applications from INTERA Geco-Prakle three-dimensional seismic technologies.
