Total's new machine beats rivals in high-tech race for oil

PARIS (Reuters) - French oil major Total on Friday launched a new supercomputer that will help it find oil 15 times faster than before and rank it among the world's top 10 institutions in terms of computing power. The machine, called Pangea, will allow the Paris-based group to help gauge more precisely the potential of exploration wells and the size of its oil reserves. ...



via Tech News Headlines - Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/totals-machine-beats-rivals-high-tech-race-oil-180643851--finance.html