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Table of Contents
Overview and System Aspects

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-2 Purpose of the Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-2 Contents of this Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-2 Additional Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-3 Software Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-4 User Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-4 Related Software Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-6 ChronoVista . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-6 Geoland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-6 StrataVista . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-7 GeoVista . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-7 FracVista . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-7 VectorVista . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-7 GeOlympus: the statics workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-8 Supported Hardware and Operating Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-9 General Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-9 Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-10 Third Party Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-12 Database Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-12 Graphic Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-12 Utility Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-13 Java Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-13 Operating Environment and Site Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-14 Installation and Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-14 Task Management (Job Manager) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-16
Documentation
Interactive Documentation XDoc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B-2 Printable Documentation Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B-2 Geocluster Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B-4 Documentation of Related Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B-5
Working Environment
List of Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C-2 Production Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C-3
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Kereon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-3 Geodesk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-3 Geopad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-4 Stead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-5 XJob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-5 Gem-based application launch scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-7 Auxiliary Data Management (XPS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-8 Installation and Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-8 Compatibility with Other Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-8 XPS Server (Xps0821) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-9 XPS Interactive Application (version 2.4.4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-10 Seismic Data Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-13 DDAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-13 Seismic Data Server (SDS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-15 CGM Plotting Package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-16
Batch Modules
New Batch Modules and Major Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-2 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-2 Input/Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-3 Attribute Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-4 Calculation and QC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-4 Deconvolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-4 Signal Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-5 Antimultiples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-6 Interpolation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-7 Noise Attenuation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-9 Velocity Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-9 Static Corrections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-11 Flow Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-14 Multi-Component Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-14 Prestack Time Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-15 3D Surface Related Multiple Elimination (SRME) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-18 Prestack Depth Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-20 Prestack Depth Migration (continued) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-26 Poststack Depth Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-28 Stratigraphic Inversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-30 Parallelized Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-32 Modules Removed from this Release . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-34
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Modules Planned for Replacement in next Release . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-35
Interactive Applications
List of Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E-2 Modifications to the Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E-4 New Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E-17 Interactive Applications Removed from this Release . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E-21 Interactive Applications Planned for Replacement in next Release . . . . . . . . . . . . .E-21
Training Recommendations
Interactive Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .F-2 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .F-2 List of applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .F-2 Note on Geodesk training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .F-4
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Patches
List of Patches Included . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G-2 Note on other patches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G-12
Appendix
Batch Module Modifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H-2 System Software Modifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H-28
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Overview and System Aspects

This chapter provides an overview of the Geocluster 5.0 release and details concerning the system. You will find the following sections:
Introduction Related Software Products Supported Hardware and Operating Systems Third Party Software Operating Environment and Site Administration
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Introduction
Purpose of the Document
These notes are intended for center managers, software users, and site administrators. You will find in this document the description of the main features and changes of the new Geocluster 5.0 release with respect to the previous release Geocluster 4.1. The information should be distributed widely so that all those concerned can benefit from the new features and developments in the software. You will find in this document: the hardware and operating system specifications for this release a description of the new features and software modifications training recommendations for interactive applications the list of patches integrated in this release the updated documentation directory The various features of the software and the way in which they are organized in different packages are described in the Geocluster 5.0 Software Summary.
Contents of this Version

New features
The main differences between Geocluster 5.0 and the previous release Geocluster 4.1 can be summarized as follows: The compiler level has been upgraded A set of 44 new modules has been added to the existing ones for which significant improvements were made.
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Geocluster 5.0 runs both batch and interactive applications on PC/Linux equipment. Note that batch software and interactive applications are no longer available on the following systems: SUN. Note that the Solaris operating system is supported only for the servers (XPS, SDS, Jobmanager, DDAM). Geocluster 5.0 contains new features and improvements as well as a new version of the working environment. It is necessary to upgrade the system software to the recommended level before installing this release. There has been no change in the OS level on SUN. However, for PC/Linux platforms, batch software is compiled using a different OS level (RHEL 4.3), available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Specific instructions are provided in the Installation Guide on how to ensure compatibility between Geocluster 5.0 and Geocluster 4.1. The FLEXnet license manager is used to manage licenses for batch software as well as for interactive applications. It is recommended to read the details about the FLEXnet license manager provided in the Geocluster Installation Guide. This version includes all patches distributed for the Geocluster 4.1 release except for those patches which were for temporary use or of interest to a limited number of sites. The list of patches not integrated in the current release is given in Chapter F of this document. These patches are delivered with the release and the list will be updated on a monthly basis by the Geocluster User Support Group.
Additional Information
All features described in this document may not be available in every processing center, as the contents of the version supplied to each site depends on an individual license agreement.
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Parallelized versions of certain programs (mainly imaging or migration) only run on certain types of multi-processor systems and are subject to specific license agreements. Note that an optional license for SDI software (System Development, Inc.) is required to generate and process graphic CGM files. Refer to the Geocluster 5.0 Administration Guide for details concerning the features and configuration of this product.
Software Distribution
A standard shipment of Geocluster 5.0 contains the following elements: a set of CD-ROMs containing the software and its user documentation one printed copy of the "Release Notes" and "Installation Guide" one copy of the ReadMe file containing information and procedures for transferring files from the CD-ROMs to your system All orders for Geocluster software, documentation, and licences should be addressed to the Software Distribution Department: e-mail: cgg_distribution.master@cggveritas.com You must provide your system(s) and FLEXnet server identification, as applicable. For further information on how to order license files, refer to the Geocluster 5.0 Installation Guide.
User Support
The Geocluster User Support Group distributes information concerning known problems, as well as relevant work-arounds and solutions. The group distributes the updated list of available patches on a monthly basis. For any information, questions, and bug reports, contact the Geocluster User Support Group: e-mail: gvrsupport.master@cggveritas.com
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Related Software Products

These CGGVeritas products complement the Geocluster software used in the processing centers and are subject to a specific licence agreement. This section provides information concerning the supported systems and required operating system levels. For more information, contact the Software Distribution Department or the Geocluster User Support Group.
ChronoVista
ChronoVista is a software package for interactive velocity analysis in the time domain. This package combines GeoVel, Geomig, and Velpicker (multivolume analysis) that allow you to pick stacking velocities and horizons in the time domain, then to perform QC and specific processing on the picked velocity and horizon attributes. You can now access the ChronoVista main window via the main window of Kereon. ChronoVista 4.0, is now available for PC/Linux platforms only.
Geoland
Geoland is a system designed for the QC and management of the support data of land and shallow water seismic acquisitions. In processing centers, Geoland is used in most cases for spread geometry handling, crooked line or 3D binning, and bin attributes mapping (coverage, offset distribution, and so on). The current version, Geoland 5.0 is available for PC/Linux, using Oracle 10g.
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StrataVista
StrataVista is an integrated suite of applications dedicated to seismic reservoir characterization based on stratigraphic inversion (TDROV package) for acoustic or elastic impedance derivation. The modules have been designed and developed to complement each other and make it easy to exchange data between them. You can now access ChronoVista via the main window of Kereon. The current version, StrataVista 2.2 is available for the PC/Linux platform.
GeoVista
GeoVista is a software package for Pre-Stack or Post Stack Depth Migration and depth macro model building. You can now access the GeoVista main window via the main window of Kereon. The current version, GeoVista 4.0, is available for the PC/Linux platform.
FracVista
FracVista is an integrated processing service that provides quantitative information such as direction and intensity of sub-seismic scale fractures for reservoirs. It takes advantage of the azimuthal variations made available by modern, high fold wide azimuth P-wave seismic acquisitions. The current version is FracVista 1.1 and is available for SUN (Solaris 8) and PC/Linux platforms.
VectorVista
VectorVista is an interactive seismic QC and interpretation package, specifically developed for the interpretation of data volumes derived from multi-component seismic data. Developed in Java, VectorVista benefits from multi-platform availability.
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This software was sponsored by an oil industry consortium and developed by CGGVeritas. The current standard version is VectorVista 3.1.2.
GeOlympus: the statics workstation

This package composed of three Java-based applications, offers a range of production-oriented tools for 2D and 3D static analysis. Geostar works on picked refracted arrivals to update a multi-layered or gridded tomographic model of the near surface and derive long and short wave statics corrections. GeoPACS cross-correlates the elementary traces of pre-stack gathers with a stack model, following a few picked reflectors. GeoPACS includes a kinematic solution to update the input velocity field. It also brings more degrees of freedom than conventional residual static methods to correct large magnitude short wave anomalies or medium wave and smaller magnitude anomalies. GeoWZ works with auxiliary weathering data (upholes, well logs, weathering shots and maps) that can be loaded and interpreted to construct either a layered model of the near-surface (used to compute statics) or an initial model for Geostar refraction-based inversion.
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Supported Hardware and Operating Systems

Geocluster 5.0 has been designed and tested to operate on equipment with the following characteristics.
General Information
PC/Linux is the only platform on which Geocluster 5.0 is supported. However, the SUN Solaris operating system is supported only for the servers (XPS, SDS, JobManager, DDAM,...). The following information answers frequently-asked questions for site administrators: A C compiler is required only if the site is to develop applications locally. HPC (High Power Computing) libraries are required for Geocluster parallelized applications. X11 and Motif graphic libraries are required for interactive applications (found in the $APPLIROOT directory) and JobManager (namely, the XENV and XMONITOR applications). Refer to the Installation Guide and Administrators Guide for further information.
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Specifications
SUN (Servers only)
Hardware
Architecture: SunUltra, Enterprise, SunFire, Blade Processor: UltraSparc1, UltraSparc3
Software
Operating System: Solaris 8 (Solaris 9 and 10 upward compatibility is not guaranteed). The SUN Solaris operating system is supported only for the servers: XPS, SDS, JobManager, DDAM,...
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Hardware
PC, 1 GB memory (RDRAM or DDRAM), 60 GB hard disk minimum Processor: INTEL Pentium4 or compatible Graphic card:Nvidia Quadra4 200 NVS (GeForce 4 dual head).
Software
OS: Linux distribution Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.3, 2.6 kernel, 32-bit and 64-bit. Compiler: Fortran 90 Intel compiler is no longer required with Geocluster 5.0. Mkl 9.0.018 subroutine library Graphic libraries: Xfree, OpenMotif-2.2 A copy of these libraries is provided in the distribution.
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Software for parallelized applications

HPC: MPICH 1.2.7.
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Third Party Software

The following third party software is either provided with Geocluster 5.0 or embedded in the applications. This software may be subject to specific license agreements.
Database Management
The current XPS database now uses Oracle 10.2.0 and was upgraded since previous release Geocluster 4.1. (see section on Auxiliary Data Management (XPS) on page C-8). Geoland 4.3 uses Oracle 10g.
Graphic Software
SDI (Software Development Inc.) version 7.4 graphic software is used to output CGM plots in Geocluster and Geoland. This product is managed with the FLEXnet license manager; new license files must be requested from either the SDI or CGGVeritas Software Distribution Department. GksBx version 9 graphic libraries are used with Geocluster and Geoland.
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Utility Software
The TCL-TK software is used to run the utility programs of the working environment (geopad and geounix). The current version is TCL-TK 8.3. The FLEXnet package is used to manage the licenses for Geocluster batch software and interactive applications. FLEXnet version 11.4 is mandatory to manage the license files provided with Geocluster 5.0. Refer to the Geocluster Installation Guide for information concerning the new compiled version provided with this distribution. Firefox is used to browse and read the files of Geocluster documentation and Geocluster Development Environment in HTML or PDF format.
Java Environment
A suitable java runtime environment is required for many new applications and must be installed locally on each machine. The current level required is 1.6. A suitable java runtime environment is provided on the distribution media or can be downloaded.
Some interactive applications use libraries from INT.
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Installation and Administration
An Installation Guide is provided with the release; read it before loading the CD-ROM or DVD into the system. Note especially the points outlined below.
Operating system
Complete the operating system upgrade before loading the release. The system must meet the current requirements specified in this document; refer to "Supported Hardware and Operating Systems" on page A-9.
Distribution media
Geocluster is supplied on CD-ROM or DVD: a README file describes the procedure to follow to copy the files before actually beginning the installation. The basic documentation in PDF format (Geocluster Release Notes, Installation Guide, Administrators Guide, and FLEXnet Administration Guide) can be read or printed directly from the media.
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User licences
Geocluster licenses are managed by the FLEXnet package. With respect to the previous version, FLEXnet is the new name for the FLEXlm product (from version 10 onwards). This new version is needed for handling Linux 64-bit applications or dongles. It is fully compatible with applications linked to FlexLM, version 9.5 and under. FLEXnet 11.4 is implemented for batch modules for the current level 5000 (Geocluster 5.0).
Note FLEXnet 11.4 uses the same API as FLEXnet 9.5.
The "FLEXnet Administration Guide" explains the installation of the licence server. Refer to the Geocluster 5.0 Installation Guide for information on how to install the license file.
Management of large file systems

The input and output modules can handle files greater than 2 Gb in size.
Compatibility with previous versions of Geocluster

The scripts used to run jobs have been modified to allow levels 5000 and 4100 to be used on the same system. The choice of level is determined by the LEVEL variable, a message informs the user of the job submission level. Refer to the "Installation Guide" for more detailed information.
Oracle software
You must upgrade the Oracle software if you installed the XPS version of Geocluster 4.1. The Oracle version provided with Geocluster 5.0 (Oracle 10.2.0) can also be used to run Geoland 5.0.
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Task Management (Job Manager)

If you are upgrading from a version older than Geocluster 4.1, refer to the Release Notes for the Geocluster 4.1 version for previous modifications for the Job Manager. The table below lists the modifications made since the Geocluster 4.1 release.
Program
All programs
SAR / SDR

Short description
All programs are now ported to the new operating system RHEL 4.3 32-bit with compatibility for 64-bit. Optimization of all programs (CPU, memory). Look and feel modifications (graphic interfaces). Configuration files (ressources) support up to 20000 lines. Display user, home and disp when dumping message. Set default stack limit depending on machine configuration. Add support for cpu detection for single-core and dualcore processors. Allow cpu detection to be overwritten using the cpudef configuration file. A new color code (actor_down) was added in acp to allow blocked actors to be easily identified: these actors should not be re-opened before some action has taken place. When you click the circle button below the heart icon, a warning popup is now displayed before you confirm the blocking of the scheduler. When an actor is blocked by an operator, a message is now displayed when you click on this actor. The time message is now displayed even if there is no active job on an actor. Modification to allow direct transfer of files wihout file compression.
acp
SDR 12812
SAR 14618
SDR 14200
gvrxfer
SDR 11066
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Program
gvr_tpdaemon JobManager
SAR / SDR
SAR 12809 SAR 14206 SAR 14415
Short description
When a stage file is requested but does not exist, the system now ignores the outstanding DDAM request. Jobmanager actor scripts are now located in a directory that is NOT in the path of user commands. Correction to allow the stgdump utility to read data correctly on PC Linux machines. Modification to allow sreq to be copied locally to prevent network (nfs) problems. The machine and/or the PID0 of the process that creates millions of line messages is now added to the log file logd.acct.LOGGER. Increase limits in numbers of shared memory obejcts. The following limits were modified: - Number of users: increased from 1000 to 2000, - Charge number increased from 100 to 200, - Number of actors increased from 1000 to 2000, - Number of groups increased from 200 to 300. The following functions were removed: planet / task id. A network timeout was added to prevent the daemon from hanging when a network error occurs. Modification to allow lreq command to display longer information messages. The llsact command now displays the actor status. Modification to improve the validation of arguments before any submission. Modification to force job crash with error message when the following (incorrect) lsub command -level4100 is coded instead of the correct coding - level 4100. Previously the job used to run in level 3100 instead of aborting without starting. rpipe and rcopy have limited number of arguments. To replace in SCP program vmstat by sar on SUN platforms.
logd
SAR 13916
SDR 14437
lreq lsub SAR 14279
rpipe scp
SAR 12924 SAR 13915
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stad
SAR / SDR
SAR 12871
Short description
Modification to prevent the statistic daemon stad from hanging every 2 or 3 weeks and to avoid loosing statictics before daemon restart. Modification to prevent lines in the statistics file (STATCC) from being truncated to 80 characters. If sdi.config file is missing or wrong ($gvr_root/jobmgr/ data), TPLOT doesnt create output cgm file, in spite of "Normal completion of EXECUTION" message. Compilation on RHEL 4.3 32-bit with compatibility for 64-bit Correction for xenv, xmonitor, xopreq startup on linux machines. Modification to allow stage file progress to be displayed in job messages. Correction made in greq -check for virtual datasources. Modification to allow acp and dvlmon to be stopped only on the logger. All references to old machines (spp...) have been removed.
stad, sreq tplot
SAR 12982 SAR 13850
xanv, xmonitor, xopreq Gvrstop
IMPORTANT:
As the number of actors has been modified in the 5.0 release, you must dump your jobmanager configuration in an ASCII file before changing to this release. Once the 5.0 release has been installed on your system, you can retrieve your site configuration by using this ASCII dump file. For more information, refer to the Geocluster Installation Guide. Only Geocluster 5.0 level daemons must be running on the site.
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Documentation
This chapter provides detailed information concerning the documentation of the Geocluster release. You will find the following sections:
Interactive Documentation XDoc Printable Documentation Directory
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Interactive Documentation XDoc

The Geocluster 5.0 documentation, XDoc, is supplied as a set of HTML navigation pages from which you access principally PDF files. The display and cross-reference functionalities have been optimized for the specified browser configuration. The XDoc documentation is contained in the $gvr_root/lv5000/doc directory and contains the following sub-directory: UDOC: user documentation (users guides, batch modules, and interactive applications). PDOC: programmer documentation (programers guides). Available only for sites that have acquired a development licence. To access the online documentation system, the $APPLIROOT/XDOC directory must be present, even if it is empty. To launch the main window of XDoc, select the Applis > xdoc option or click on the icon button in the toolbar of the Kereon main window. Xdoc can also be launched from the bottom left part of the Geopad window.
Printable Documentation Directory

The following table contains the documentation that exists in PDF format, structured as a printable book with a table of contents. Specific interactive applications in the Geocluster release now include online documentation only, for example MVP, Teamview and MapQc. As a general rule, the documentation for these applications is available via the Help menu of the application.
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Doc status: "NEW" (new doc), "UPD" (updated), "=" (no change since former release). Send orders for documentation to: CGGVeritas Services S.A./ Software Distribution Department. e-mail: cgg_distribution.master@cggveritas.com fax: (33) 1 64 47 34 13.
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Geocluster Documentation
Application Title of document Status
Geocluster Users Documentation

Geocluster Geocluster Geocluster JobManager Geocluster Geocluster Gct 5.0 - Software Summary Gct 5.0 - Release Notes Gct 5.0 - User's Guide Gct 5.0 - Job Manager Graphic Interface Gct 5.0 - Introduction to Seismic Processing Gct 5.0 - Seismic Trace Header Format UPD UPD UPD UPD UPD UPD
Geocluster Administrators Documentation

Geocluster Geocluster Geocluster Geodesk Xps Geocluster Flexnet SDS Gct 5.0 - Installation Guide Gct 5.0 - Administrator's Guide Parallel Modules - Quick Installation & Administration Guide Geodesk 1.5 - Installation and Administartion Guide. Xps 2.4 - Installation & Administration Guide Database Software- Installation Guide Flexnet 11.4 - Administration Guide SDS 2.5 - Installation & Administration Guide UPD = NEW NEW UPD UPD UPD UPD
Geocluster Programmers Documentation

Geocluster Geocluster Geocluster Geocluster Gct 5.0 - Getting Started Programming Gct 5.0 - Programmer's Guide Gct 5.0 - Programming Standards Gct 5.0 - Programmer's Guide SURF Package = = UPD =
Geocluster Interactive Software Users Documentation

Calix Dynamo Eyeful FastQC Calix 1.5 - Reference Documentation Dynamo 1.7 - User Guide Eyeful 2.3 - Reference Manual FastQC 4.2 - Reference Documentation = UPD UPD UPD
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Application Geodesk Jseg2Fi Lgedit Libdl MapQc Matcalc Mecano Mvp Sditr Teamview XJob XMod XPS XPS
Title of document Geodesk 1.5 - Users Guide Jseg2Fi 2.0 - Users Guide Lgedit 2.3 - Reference Manual Libdl 3.4 - Reference Documentation MapQc 1.5 - User Documentation Matcalc 4.0 - Reference Documentation Mecano 2.3 - Reference Documentation Mvp 7.1 - Users Guide Sditr 4.5 - Reference Documentation Teamview 1.12 Users guide XJob 3.6 - Reference Documentation XMod 3.6 - User Documentation XPS 2.4 - User's Guide XPS Dictionary v.2.0
Status NEW NEW UPD = NEW UPD UPD = UPD UPD UPD = UPD NEW
Documentation of Related Software

Application Title of document Status
Geoland 5.0
Geoland Geoland Geoland Geoland 2D version User Documentation 3D version - User Documentation Common Options - User Documentation Installation and Administration Guide UPD UPD UPD UPD
ChronoVista 4.0
ChronoVista GeoVel Geomig Release Notes & Installation Guide GeoVel 6.3 - User Documentation Geomig 5.2 - User Manual UPD UPD UPD
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Title of document VelPicker 1.2 - User Manual
Status =
Geovista 4.0
GeoVista GeoVista Aniwell FastGeotie FastQC PetroCaem VelPicker VelTracer Vitamin Vitamin Overview Release Notes & Installation Guide Aniwell 1.1 - User Guide FastGeoTie 2.7 - User Manual FastQC 3.8 - Reference Documentation PetroCaem 1.7 - Reference Documentation VelPicker 1.1 - User Manual VelTracer 3.2 - Quick Reference Guide Vitamin 3.1 - Reference Guide Vitamin 3.1 - User Guide UPD UPD NEW = UPD UPD = NEW NEW NEW
StrataVista 2.2
StrataVista StrataVista Geomig SIModelBrowser StrataVista StrataVista StrataVista StrataVista StrataVista StrataVista Lgedit Matcalc FastQC FastGeotie Overview Release Notes & Installation Guide Geomig 5.2 - User Manual SIModelBrowser 2.2 - User Manual CGGVeritas Modeling Workflow 4.0 -Tutorial Gocad 2.1 - Data Management - User Guide CGGVeritas Gocad Inversion QC 4.0 - Tutorial Mini Inverter 2.1 - Tutorial Wavelet Estimation 4.0 - Tutorial GeoSI 4.0 - User Guide Lgedit 2.3 - Reference Manual Matcalc 4.0 - Reference Documentation FastQC 4.1 - Reference Documentation FastGeoTie 2.7 - User Manual UPD UPD UPD UPD = = = = = NEW UPD UPD UPD =
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Application
Title of document
Status
GeOlympus 3.5
Geostar GeoPACS GeoWZ Geostar 3.5 - Reference Guide GeoPACS 1.9 - User Guide GeoWZ 1.3 - User Guide UPD UPD UPD
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Working Environment
This chapter provides detailed information about management and working environment aspects of the Geocluster 5.0 release. You will find the following sections:
List of Applications Production Management Auxiliary Data Management (XPS) Seismic Data Management CGM Plotting Package
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List of Applications
The following applications are part of the working environment of the Geocluster user. Refer to Chapter F for information on training recommendations for interactive applications.
Application Version
Production management: GEODESK KEREON GEOPAD XJOB XPRO 1.5.5 1.6.0 1.8.5 3.6.5 3.6.5 PC/L PC/L PC/L PC/L PC/L basic basic basic basic basic Planning and management of production tasks Geocluster desktop and utilities Geocluster desktop and utilities Job flow building (batch) Management of production parameters (Aspro)
Platforms
Package
Function
Auxiliary data management (XPS): XPS (server) XPS (appli) 0821 2.4.4 PC/L PC/L basic basic XPS database Management of data in the XPS database
Development environment: gvtenv XMOD PATCH 3.6.5 SUN PC/L SUN PC/L ENVDEV ENVDEV Geocluster development environment Building / editing the XJob parameter window
Seismic Data Server (SDS): SDS 2.5.4 PC/L basic Seismic data management.
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Production Management
Kereon
Kereon version 1.6.0 Kereon is an interactive application designed as a production tool for file management and application launching. Kereon allows you to browse, edit and QC the data used in production processing whatever the storage format and location. This Java-based tool offers an advanced and user-friendly interface to easily carry out the tasks of seismic processing such as: Geocluster project management, Data QC and display with databaords, Launch and manage other applications. For further information, refer to the Kereon online help.
NOTE:
Kereon is intended for replacing the Geopad application: all features of Geopad are available in Kereon.
Geodesk
Geodesk version 1.5.5 Geodesk is an interactive application which is used as a user desktop production tool providing a complete working environment for Geocluster, from file management to job launching and monitoring. One of the main features of Geodesk is the multiuser functions that allow several users to work on the same Geodesk project without destructive interference. Geodesk is based on an internal Oracle database which integrates most of the project management data. In Geodesk, the data is stored in the form of text files (job models, job listings and so on) which are stored in the project subdirectories or in the form of tables in the associated database.
NOTE:
Geodesk replaces other production tools such as Geowork and Geotapes.
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Training recommendations
Refer to section "Note on Geodesk training" on page F-4 for information on Geodesk training recommendations.
Summary of Geodesk modifications

Application Version SR Short description
1.4.1
First production version of Geodesk to be released. Modification to allow customization of job commands (for example: allow rack numbers to be used) Modification to introduce a time limit for the Geodesk administartion interface (GeodeskInterAdmin): set to 30 mns by default. A new version of the Users Guide is available via the online Help menu.
1.4.3
New features: Create subprojects associated with folders, 1.5 Create Tasks (processes without profile table) Import/Export from one Geodesk project to another, Create INMRG libraries, Row header systematically displayed for all tables, Optimization of all interactive operations and server startup.
Geopad
Geopad version 1.8.5 No major changes were made to the present version of Geopad since the former version issued with Geocluster 4.1.
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Stead
Stead version 2.0.a.36 This text editor is available from the ENSTA institute. The current version is identical to the version issued with Geocluster 4.1.
XJob
XJob version 3.6.5 No major changes were made to the present version of XJob since the former version issued with Geocluster 4.1.
Summary of modifications
You will find below a table indicating the details of the XJob software modifications.
SAR 10585 SAR 10211
Modification to update the On News option available from the Help menu. TIKIM module: modification to correct the gsl coding of parameter TOPO when selecting parameter LST: the coding TOPO=xxx is no longer missing. Modification to use Flexlm keys instead of old Gvtkeys. When you click the On Xjob option of the Help menu, the application opens the user documentation instead of opening a window with message: Please, look at XJOB users manual. Corrects to allow the access of the corresponding documentation for each module. It is now possible to access the list of modules by alphabetical order.
3.5.1
SDR 12224 SDR 10722
SDR 12229 SDR 10975
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Application Version
SR
Short description
SAR 11615 3.5.1 SAR 9627
Corrects to allow Xjob to access CST format files that are greater than 2Gb when working on PC. Corrects to avoid the application from crashing with Maspro commands (number of lines in comments is no longer limited). Xpro: In Aspro Data Browser (Xpro), Commons section is no longer hidden by the window scroll bar. Corrects for a job crash with module DUPLI due to incorrect loop sequence in gsl. Corrects wrong coding for parameter NOX (module DUPLI) when there are several input datasets. Corrects for a job crash in analysis for missing LIBRI coding in the gsl. Avoids the application from crashing on PC in Geocluster level 2100 when more than one input is coded in the job and the execute icon is used. The menu that allowed you to change the * for a $ or a # in the first column of a module coding line was removed. Corrects to allow the Fast Edit option to work correctly when editing a library associated with a module. New CGGVeritas logo.
SAR 11768 SAR 13300 3.5.3 SAR 13509 SAR 13548 3.5.4 SAR 11865
3.5.4 3.6
SDR 11606 SAR 12276 SAR 12277
XPS Dictionary
When recovering jobs created with an earlier version of the dictionary it is possible to open the job with the original dictionary. The XPS dictionary is now available from the list of applications in XDoc.
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Gem-based application launch scripts

Launching GeoVista and ChronoVista
As implemented in the previous release (Geocluster 4.1), GeoVista and ChronoVista can be launched directly from the Kereon application (and from Geopad via the Applis menu). Kereon allows you to add new applications to the list of applications available from the tool bar as well as new packages (such as GeOlympus, Geoland for example). Note that GeoVel (part of the Chronovista software package) is available by default from the Kereon tool bar.
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Auxiliary Data Management (XPS)

Installation and Administration
The supported platforms for both server and client applications are: SUN: Sol8 - Oracle 10.2.0 PC: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.3 (kernel 2.6) - Oracle 10g R2 (10.2.0.) The Oracle run-time is now delivered on a separate CD-ROM. This run-time can be used for the current XPS release 0821. The current version of Geoland requires Oracle 10.2.0. You will need to upgrade the Oracle software if you installed the XPS version provided with Geocluster 4.1. The XPS Installation and Administration Guide was updated for the present release. You will also find information in a ReadMe file located in the Xps0821 directory of Geocluster 5.0.
Compatibility with Other Software

This level is compatible with Dynamo 1.5.8 or later. FastQC 3.2.10 or later (comprising FastQC 4.1). Kereon 1.3.8 or later. ChronoVista 2.2 or later. SDS 2.4.7 or later.
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XPS Server (Xps0821)

XPS Server (Oracle10g)
This Xps0821 level implements the XPS server with the Oracle10g database. This server has the same functionalities as the server working with Oracle8i. In this server, the XPS data is stored in binary files and only referenced in the Oracle10g database.
Supported Platforms
The supported platform for the 64 bits XPS server is: RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) 4.3 or later (x86-64 architecture) with the Oracle10g R2 (10.2.0.1.0) release. The supported platforms for the client applications (2.4.4 XPS browser, 2.0.1 DataManager, xpsdisp ...) are: Linux : RH 7.3, RHEL 3.x and RHEL 4.x. SUN : Solaris8.
Compatibility with the Prior XPS Server Releases

The client applications delivered with this new level can run against both new or old XPS servers allowing a fully ascending compatibility. All the functionalities of the old XPS server working with Oracle8i exist in this new XPS server. The xpsadm administration tool is the saame. The projects that have been archived on the old server can be imported to the new server (xpsadm -import). To migrate the projects that still remain on the old XPS Oracle8i server to the new Oracle10g server, there are 3 solutions:
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XPS Server Installation

To install the Xps0821 level and the Oracle10g database, see the README.server-install located in the $XPSROOT/admin directory of the Xps0821 level. For further information, refer to the XPS 2.4 Installation and Administration guide.
XPS Interactive Application (version 2.4.4)

New Features
Three new options have been implemented. They enable you to: display a scatter dataset as a Grid in FastQC. This allows you to combine a 3D geometry definition with a (INL, CRL, Z) dataset and export it to FastQC extend datasets with or without a polygon. An extensive section tells you how to extend 3D data with a polygon using the XPS method. copy and restore XPS data. There is an interactive way of restoring partial archives. There is also an application launched from the XPS browser which allows you to copy data or subsets of data between two XPS projects.
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The 2.4.4 XPS Browser

Compared to the 2.3.3 XPS browser, two new developments have been made: the compatibility with FastQC 4.0 where X, Y coordinates are in double precision. the display of the new CggVeritas logo. This 2.4.4 XPS browser is delivered with the 2.0.1 DataManager working with Java 1.5 compatible with the 2.4.7 SDS version (and later).
Summary of modifications
You will find below a table indicating the details of the XPS software modifications.
Application Version 2.3.1 SR SDR 12541 SDR 12789 Short description XPS now keeps the order of the attributes created by the user instead of rearranging them in its own XPS order. A new option has been added when sending an Inline/ Crossline/Attribute dataset from XPS to FastQC. This option allows you to associate a 3D grid definition with an Inline/ Crossline/Attribute dataset in XPS. In the FastQC object list you can now reference the dataset as a grid and directly display it in a true X/Y coordinate system. In the spreadsheet you can now extend the values of a 2 keys dataset to the limits given by a polygon dataset. The bug which erases comments when they are over 111 characters long has been eliminated. The comment is limited to 166 characters. You now have an interactive way to delete a lot of Idents in the XPS application. This is useful when you wish to archive and delete large projects
2.3.1
SDR 12821
SAR 12916
2.3.1.
SDR 12998
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SR SDR 13002 SAR 13003 SDR 13156
Short description You can now create new ident names in the Save As window of the spreadsheet. A scroll bar has been added to enable you to view the full block numbers list when it is greater than the screen size. A Restore line has been added after Partial Archiving in the Xps menu. This allows you to load datasets the have been partially archived. A find (ident or version) command has been added in the right mouse button menus. This allows you to find easily an Ident or a Version in the corresponding XPS list. You can now select one key Processing/Insert in the spreadsheet. XPS now accepts the selected records without crashing. You can now create a view from different data types having the same Version name. When you enter a grid for a new XPS project, you can now modify the calculated Y azimuth.This allows you to improve the binning accuracy for large 3D surveys. The XPS server is now able to work with Oracle9i software. Improved connection with other applications (FastQC and other applications launched by Kereon).
2.3.1 SDR 13406
SAR 13847
2.3.2 2.3.3
SAR 13478 SDR 14224
2.4.1 2.4.3
SDR 13702
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Seismic Data Management

DDAM
Several modifications have been made in the ddam program since Geocluster release 4.1. Refer to the table below for a list of modifications and to the Geocluster 5.0 Administration Guide for complete descriptions.
Program
damd
SAR / SDR
SDR 12851
Short description
Modification to add dynamical load balancing for virtual datasources. Modifications to allow Dscand to send partial updates to obtain more precise information. Modification of greq -list to obtain additional information. Modification to prevent duplicate staged file numbers from being created (the time between the creation of a new file and the update was reduced accordingly). A new command was added to allow operator to carry out proper diagnosis of load balancing (list of datasource weights and current values). Modification to optimize the locate function when files are re-written.
SDR 12187
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Program
ddam, iod
SAR / SDR
SDR 12184 SAR 12910
Short description
Modification to allow DLT, Exabyte and 3480/3490 drives have to be fully supported on PC platform. Request for OPTIMIZED DDAM version on SUN platform. The size of files transferred by DDAM are now checked to ensure that they have been correctly written to disk. Maximum size of a block supported by STG2 format was increased to improve compatibility with the new drives used. Modification to allow more properties of DDAM datasets to be managed. Modification to increase the number of datasources that can be managed: the limit is now 2000 instead of 500. Modification to allow the display of information on stage file progress in job messages. Correction of the greq -check function for virtual datasources. Correction made in greq -check for virtual datasources. Modification to add SDS statistics support. New types added to support SDS compatibility: TY_GHF, TY_LZO, TY_SDF New functions were added for SDS: greq -match and greq -locatew Modification to allow longer strings for coding vsn crew number. Modification to allow and EOF to be supported in the middle of a file. Modification for porting to Linux.
SAR 12617 SDR 12815
SDR 14422 SDR 14636
Ddam
stgcheck stgdump
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Seismic Data Server (SDS)

The Seismic Data Server is now integrated in the standard Geocluster software package. The version compatible with Geocluster 5.0 is SDS 2.5.4. It is available only for PC Linux platforms.
New Features
The following options have been implemented. DDAM mode: The Data browser and data management now run in DDAM mode. The local scratch of the actor is now used for storing data during computation. New parameters have been added to the SDS configuration file: - *.*.ALWAYS_LOCATE, *.*.DDAM_ON_TS: these parameters allow the administrator to define one or several servers for managing interactive DDAM requests, - *.*.MC_TIME_TO_LIVE (allows sending multicast packets on subnets). When a DDAM file is offline, a help message is sent to the acp.
For further information on recent modifications made to SDS, refer to the SDS 2.5 Release Notes.
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CGM Plotting Package

Geocluster can produce plot files in CGM format, using the TPLOT / MECANO applications. In addition to CGGVeritas application software, SDI products are necessary to visualize, assemble, and rasterize CGM graphic files. If you want to include a new logo in Geocluster, send the logo file, preferably in CGM format, to the Geocluster User Support Group. You will find below the list of new logos in the current release:
Module
LOGO LOGO LOGO LOGO LOGO LOGO LOGO LOGO LOGO LOGO LOGO LOGO LOGO LOGO
Level
4101 4101 4105 4105 4106 4106 4108 4108 4109 4109 4111 4111 4116 4116
Mod
PAR PAR PAR PAR PAR PAR PAR PAR PAR PAR PAR PAR PAR PAR
Short Description
New logos in cgm format for PLOTX: BGP, KEPCO, LUKSA, MOL, NIOCN New logos rasterized for PLOTX: BGP, KEPCO, LUKSA, MOL, NIOCN New logos in cgm format: APACHE, SLGRI New logos in rasterized for PLOTX: APACHE, SLGRI New logo in cgm format : COSAIL, PERTROCHN, SINOGEO New logos rasterized for PLOTX: COSAIL, PERTROCHN, SINOGEO New rasterized logo for PLOTX: ANH, BRGMG, CGGVE, GEOLDE, GEOLDR, SNG New logos in CGM format: ANH, BRGMG, CGGVE, GEOLDE, GEOLDR, SNG New logo rasterized for PLOTX: AGOCO, ROSNE New logo in CGM format: AGOCO, ROSNE New logo rasterized for PLOTX: PERTA New logo in CGM format: PERTA New logo rasterized for PLOTX: GESNEW New logo in CGM format: GESNEW
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Other interactive applications which can also generate CGM files include: SDITR, FastQC, EYEFUL, and LGEDIT.
Coding change for Geocluster plotting modules

Be advised that due to the change of the CGGVeritas logo, the coding must be changed in seismic jobs that contain the following modules: LIBRI HB: you must no longer code parameter CGG corresponding to the old CGG logo. LIBRI SL: no coding change: the old CGG logo is replaced by the name CGGVeritas (logo not displayed by default). PLOTX: you must replace parameter CGG by CGGVE.
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Batch Modules
This chapter provides detailed information concerning the batch modules in the Geocluster 5.0 release. You will find the following sections:
New Batch Modules and Major Updates Parallelized Software Modules Removed from this Release Modules Planned for Replacement in next Release
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New Batch Modules and Major Updates

Introduction
The new modules (bold face) and major updates delivered in this release are: Input/Output modules: INFLT, SHRNK, Attribute Analysis modules: AZAVA, Calculation and QC modules: QCXPS, Deconvolution: PPDEC, Signal processing modules: DECTP, TPXPY, Antimultiples: ADAPT, DIMAT, ODIMM, MOMUL, SMMOD Interpolation modules: REG2D, REG3D, SYMUL, Noise Attenuation modules: FDNAT, HDFIL Velocity Analysis modules: CURQC, HDRES, HDRMO, HFNMO, REBOX, Static Corrections modules FBPIK, FLATN, HFSTA, WASAP, WASTA, TVATS, Flow Management modules: TRASY,
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Multi-Component Processing modules: CALMC, PRO4C Prestack Depth Migration modules: INWET, OUWET, SRANG, SRMIP Stratigraphic Inversion module: INVEI These new and updated functions are detailed below. Refer to Chapter H for a detailed list of modifications to the Geocluster modules.
Input/Output
Inflate compressed seismic data INFLT
The purpose of the INFLT module is to restore (inflate) standard seismic traces from compressed super traces generated by the SHRNK compression module. The module automatically senses the type of gathers and the kind of algorithm necessary to recover the data.
Shrinkage (compression) of seismic data
SHRNK
The purpose of the SHRNK module is to manipulate the seismic information with a much smaller volume size (shrinkage) during seismic jobs, in order to reduce memory or disk space requirements. The information from a full gather is packed in a compressed super trace. It is possible to perform very large sorting with smaller scratch disks. Two options (Lossy and Lossless) are available to achieve compression.
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Attribute Analysis
Azimuthal Amplitude versus Angle AZAVA
This module analyses the azimuthal variations of the Amplitude versus Angle for compressional waves, in the presence of HTI layers (Horizontal Transverse Isotropic: Transverse Isotropic medium with a horizontal axis of symmetry). More generally, for each input trace gather (defined by the Y-flag) with traces tri defined by their incidence angle i and an azimuth , the module fits sample after sample, the trace amplitudes according to a given model. Typically, input traces are prestack CDP trace gathers that can be entered in any order: prior sorting of the input traces is not necessary.
Calculation and QC
Regularization of multiple 3D datasets QCXPS
This module computes attributes linked to the amplitude of input seismic traces belonging to the same group. The results are stored in an XPS database in the form of one record per group of input traces. Note on QCXPS QCXPS replaces modules QCDBU and LIBRI DB which should no longer be coded in your jobs (see page 34). QCXPS also replaces partly module QCAMP, in particular, attribute computations from trace samples with results stored in trace header words.
Deconvolution
Poststack driven prestack deconvolution PPDEC
This module applies gapped deconvolution to prestack gathers by deriving its operator from post stack data corresponding to each trace. Poststack data at a given trace is obtained by stacking all the traces in a user defined neighborhood of the input trace. Gathers are generally common receiver
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gathers but any gather domain can be processed assuming correct header words for radial search are provided. The module can output various diagnostic traces in auxiliary output buffers. Because stacking is needed, traces input to this program must have NMO applied to them. NMO should be removed from the (main) output buffer afterwards.
Signal Processing
2D high resolution TauP decomposition DECTP
DECTP implements a forward/reverse tau-p (linear Radon) transform for the purpose of any tau-p processing. While most of the available modules (LINTP, RADON) compute the forward transform by a simple slant-stack (followed by a rho-filter to restore phase and frequency content), DECTP performs a weighted decomposition obtained by a least-squares inversion: the tau-p domain is calculated so as to minimize the misfit after a forward-reverse round-trip. The slant-stack is suitable for most cases, however, some applications may require a more accurate transform. The inversion brings obvious advantages for the tau-p traces near p=0 and is appropriate to handle noisy data. The purpose of the weighting applied to the data is to improve the handling of noise.
3D TauP transform
TPXPY
The module implements a forward/reverse 3D tau-px-py ("bi-linear" Radon) transform for the purpose of any tau-p processing. It can process 3D gathers (shot points, receiver gathers; cross-spreads,...), as defined by the user. The forward transform is achieved through a least-square inversion, called taupx-py decomposition (though the module allows you to achieve the transform by a simple x-y summation (slant-stack)). The tau-px-py domain is calculated so as to minimize the misfit after a forward-reverse round-trip. The reverse
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transform reconstructs the t-x-y data on exactly the same (x,y) positions as the data input to the forward transform. One advantage of the 3D tau-px-py transform over the 2D tau-p transform is that it is an exact plane-wave decomposition for point sources (while the 2D tau-p transform basically assumes line sources). Thanks to the inversion, the algorithm can correctly handle any input geometry. The trace distribution within the gathers has however to be dense, without spatial aliasing. TPXPY can also perform data regularization.
Antimultiples
Improved adaptive model subtraction ADAPT
The module subtracts adaptively a model dataset m or several models (up to 4) from an input dataset d, by estimating an adaptation filter f to increase the resemblance between m and d, under the minimum energy criterion. The module works on 2D spatio-temporal independent sliding windows. Typical application is the subtraction of a multiple model from the recorded data. However, the module can be applied to any case where one wants to separate signal and (coherent) noise in the data, and when a model of the noise is available (which differ from the exact noise by the amplitude spectrum, a time-shift, phase rotations,...). In the context of multiple attenuation, the signal stands for the primaries, and the noise stands for the multiples.
Diffracted multiple attenuation
DIMAT
DIMAT is a single trace module designed to attenuate diffracted multiples. Multiple suppression is achieved by limiting sample amplitudes to a maximum value computed in the sliding window, L. This is performed within a user defined frequency bandwidth. Samples over the maximum (K Average) are multiplied by a scalar (F). This module uses Geocluster modules EVERY, FILTR, SCALE, and NOISE to perform the multiple attenuation. As a result, error/warning messages
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relating to these modules may appear in your listing when they relate to module DIMAT.
One-D internal multiple modelling
ODIMM
This module models the interbed multiple (acoustic) wavefield under the assumption of a horizontal stratified medium (1D). The modelling is fully data-driven: it does not require any subsurface information (velocity model or generator picking). The cinematics and the lateral amplitude variations of the multiple wavefield are modelled, but not the correct frequency content: the modelled wavefield has to be subtracted in an adaptive manner from the data, either with classical adaptive subtractions modules (SOMUL, ADAPT), or with pattern recognition modules (SPLAT, SPLTD).
2D prestack surface related multiple modelling
SMMOD
SMMOD is a 2D prestack multiple modeling program based on the Delft Surface Multiple Attenuation Method, also known as SRME (Surface-Related Multiple Elimination). It predicts and attenuates all surface multiples (events that experienced a reflection off the surface). Being fully data-driven, it does not require any prior knowledge of the subsurface (interfaces, velocities). This method can be adapted to compute internal multiples (IN option) and works in the Fourier-CMP-offset domain. An adaptation/subtraction function is used to derive the primary wave field but it is preferable to perform the final subtraction with a specific adaptation/ subtraction module (ADAPT/LASUB, ADSUB, SPLAT).
Interpolation
Regularization of 2D data REG2D
This module performs regularization of 2D data using different types of algorithms. A cable gather can also be considered as a marine shot gather with only one cable. The input data are processed in spatial blocks and merged into
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the tapered output flow. For Radon and dealiazed Fourier methods, temporal windowing can be applied.
One pass 3D data regularization
REG3D
This module performs regularization of data along two directions using Fourier Reconstruction. The input data are transformed using an irregular 2D Fourier decomposition that respects the input data positions. The reverse transform maps the data to a regular grid. Two algorithms are available, standard Fourier reconstruction (FR), and de-aliased Fourier reconstruction (DF). The module can be run on a variety of different data domains to regularize in different manners: the data are processed in blocks of size NCX by NCY. Each block is processed individually with a forward irregular Fourier transform followed by a reverse transform to the bin centre position. After each block is regularized, the blocks are merged together with user defined taper sizes.
End-spread to split-spread shotpoints
SYMUL
This module is designed to transform single end-spread shotpoint trace gathers (such as in conventional marine acquisition geometry for example) into splitspread shotpoint gathers. This operation is performed by trace extrapolation using the reciprocity theorem within a single cable line. The acoustic reciprocity theorem states that an acoustic response remains the same when the source and receiver are interchanged. The input data must be organized in shotpoint gathers (defined by the Y-bit) sorted in the acquisition order or in reverse acquisition order. On output, the split-spread shotpoints can be used as input to the multiple attenuation module MOMUL. Note that missing short offset traces are internally extrapolated by SYMUL.
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Noise Attenuation
Frequency dependent noise attenuation FDNAT
This module attenuates high amplitude noises in decomposed frequency bands. It uses frequency-dependent and time-variant threshold values of amplitude samples, within defined trace neighborhoods, to detect and suppress noises specific to different frequency ranges and different times. The trace neighborhoods can be defined by using either a distance criteria (blank option) or the trace input order.
High density filtering
HDFIL
This module is used to filter dense attribute fields by applying filtering operators (via LIBRI CN) vertically trace by trace or laterally along the input gather of traces. Two different options are available: the Frequency option which applies trace per trace (in the frequency domain) the filter designed by LIBRI CN and the Wave Number option which applies laterally (in the wave number domain) the filter designed by LIBRI CN.
Velocity Analysis
Plotting input curvatures as a gather QC CURQC
This module is designed to generate output QC gathers containing the plotted input curvatures. CURQC will plot C2 curvatures with, optionally, input C4 and C6 curvatures added. Input to CURQC, in the main input buffer, are "skeleton" traces of C2 curvature values at the discrete T0 times to be plotted. In addition, CURQC allows optional auxiliary input buffers containing C4 and C6 curvatures to be used. The output gathers, which are suitable only for QC purposes, contain the curvatures plotted as samples at the appropriate offset and time with all other samples in a gather set to the NAN parameter value. By default the output curvatures are plotted with a sample value of 1 however an optional auxiliary input buffer can be specified to provide the sample values (e.g. semblance) with which each curvature will be plotted.
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High density residual picking
HDRES
This module is used to generate dense volumes of parameters describing the residual reflection curves, which are seen as a linear combination of power of offset. HDRES is based an automatic simultaneous picking of all parameters using orthogonal multi-scale functions. It is able to estimate the coefficients of residual curves for time or depth imaging. HDRES outputs up to four uncorrelated curvatures (C2, C4, C6,...) as .CST traces in raw (RW option) or skeleton mode (blank option) as well as various QCs. The module can be used as a QC tool for any imaging process: it allows the output of the estimation of the flatness rate of image gathers.
RMO corrections using HD parameter fields
HDRMO
HDRES is used to generate dense volumes of parameters. The module uses auxiliary input traces (generated by HDRES) containing residual moveout parameters to perform forward or reverse residual moveout corrections which are seen as a linear combination of power of offsets. The values of curvatures traces C2, C4, C6, .. are expressed in milliseconds for time traces and in meters for depth traces. The number of auxiliary input buffers determine the number of moveout parameters to be used for the residual corrections (C2, C4, C4, ...). HDRMO requires full input-traces containing residual moveout parameters for every input bin-gather location (CDP-Line).
High fidelity normal moveout correction
HFNMO
HFNMO applies or de-applies a normal moveout correction. The moveout correction can be computed using either a straight ray approximation (hyperbolic moveout), an anelliptic approach (shifted hyperbolae) or a full ray tracing solution based on a trend model (with or without anisotropy). HFNMO supports two different modes. The default mode in which the velocity attributes are allowed to change with every time sample. The TK mode, in which the velocity attributes are sampled at a coarser rate than the input traces, in order to replicate the kinematics used in TIKIM (pre-stack TIme KIrchhoff Migration).
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High density residual picking toolbox
REBOX
REBOX is a toolbox module used in the handling of high order residual move out (RMO) coefficients stored in trace format. The following functions are implemented: Conversion of RMO coefficients traces from conventional to orthogonal, Conversion of RMO coefficients traces from orthogonal to conventional, Edit of incoherent High Order RMO curves.
Static Corrections
Automatic first break picking FBPIK
This module is designed to automatically pick the first arrival times of the seismic traces input in groups. In such an input trace group, the neighboring traces are expected to be neighbors in the acquisition geometry, and this ensures the gradual changes of the first arrival times from consecutive traces. The picking results and the related quality attributes are saved in the header words, and can be saved to ASCII file, and XPS database. Guide picks can be input through XPS as well. Various options are available to account for the spatial consistency of the first break signal or to correct cycle skips.
Gather flattening
FLATN
This module is designed to flatten gathers (defined by the Y-bit) which cannot be flattened with analytical curves (such as the ones obtained using Taylor expansion). The program uses various methods to flatten gathers; these can be grouped in two categories: Stack trace options - (internal, IN, and external, EX) where stack traces are taken as reference. Event tracking options - (OR, LS, LI, SP) where the events are tracked across offsets using small time windows. Such tracking is done for all
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time samples. The derived moveout times are internally processed for lateral and temporal consistency and later applied to input gathers as a one-to-one mapping using a 3 point quadratic interpolator. Moveout values used on each time sample on each trace can be output and smoothed externally if needed (using TSFIL, for example). Afterwards they can be input (IS1) and applied to the input gathers.
High fidelity static application
HFSTA
The program applies (option FW) or removes (option RV) the full static correction (ST), or its regional component (RG), or its residual component (RS=ST-RG) using a high fidelity interpolation filter on static values in milliseconds or microseconds. It should be used preferably to module HISTA when static wraparounds are applied during high resolution processing. Unlike HISTA, HFSTA does not compute statics, it only applies stored statics.
Water statics computation
WASTA
The module WASTA computes water static correction by measuring the following parameters: The Water Velocity using water-bottom time picking. The measured water velocity (that varies from sail line to sail line) is replaced by a constant water velocity that is consistent across the whole survey. A Tide Static (to be applied after cold water static correction) to bring the zero-offset water-bottom time to a reference water bottom (smoothed water bottom given by the user). One value of tide static per shotpoint will be derived. A residual static (to be applied after cold water and tide static correction) derived for each 3D CDP gather to bring the zero-offset water-bottom time to the reference water bottom. All these measurements are then used by the module WASAP to correct for water column variations.
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Water statics application
WASAP
This module applies the water statics calculated by WASTA. The module WASAP makes a direct measurement of the water velocity and calculates the shifts necessary to correct to a reference velocity, VREF, and to a reference water bottom. Using the same VREF and reference water bottom for all sail lines (and for the two vintages in 4D) realigns the traces to a common water velocity and water bottom. Like WASTA, WASAP should be run once for each sail line in an input survey. Input data must be non NMO-corrected CDP gathers with the Y-flag set on the last trace of each input 3D bin. The output of WASAP is non NMOcorrected CDP gathers, realigned to the common velocity, VREF, and to the reference water bottom.
Time variant automatic trim statics
TVATS
This module is used for computing and applying time variant static corrections. A model is constructed by stacking the traces of one or several neighboring CDPs or bins in window(s) centered on one or several horizons. An external coherent stack can be entered via an auxiliary input buffer to be used as a model The corresponding window(s) of each elementary trace is cross-correlated with this model to calculate a time shift per horizon for each elementary trace. These time shifts are interpolated along the trace to apply a time variant static correction independent of shot point and receiver surface positions. Horizon information is read from XPS. Several horizons can be read from a single XPS horizon version. Two different options are available: 2D option: A model is constructed by stacking the windows selected around one or several horizons on CDP n or consecutive CDPs around CDP n. The corresponding windows of each elementary trace of CDP n are crosscorrelated with this model 3D option: A model is constructed by stacking the traces of one bin n or of several consecutive bins around n on the same line and on adjacent lines. The
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corresponding windows of each elementary trace of bin n are crosscorrelated with this model
Flow Management
Auxiliary trace synchronization TRASY
This module is designed to synchronize auxiliary trace buffers with the main input buffer and is part of the high density processing sequence (HD modules). The auxiliary input buffer traces are read via a secondary loop which must be coded. All main input buffer traces must be matched with an auxiliary input trace. However, auxiliary input buffer traces may be skipped if no match can be made. In the case of high density velocity picking (using HDPIC), there must be one input auxiliary trace (VI or AN attribute trace) per main input trace gather (see HDPIC processing sequence). Input traces are not sorted by the program: all traces are processed in the same order as they are input.
Multi-Component Processing
Calibration of multicomponent sensors PRO4C
PRO4C is used in preprocessing non-gimballed multicomponent receiver data, and more generally any 3C data (e.g., node). The program estimates a virtual vertical geophone (or a pair of orientated virtual horizontal geophones) by way of spectral combination of the available real geophones (calibration). To do so, the geology is assumed to be locally 1D in the vicinity of the receiver. It is also assumed that propagation can be either in an isotropic medium or in a medium with HTI anisotropy. The program computes a certain number of stacks of the dataset and therefore needs PP and PS velocity fields.
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The synthesized vertical component (called composite vertical: CV) is computed as in the module PRO2C but with the additional constraint that no horizontal energy be present. The composite horizontal (CH) geophones are such that the wavelet is the same as the reference component wavelet and no vertical energy is present.
Application of PRO4C operators
CALMC
The aim of this program is the application of PRO4C calibration operators to the dataset. Input dataset must be sorted in common receiver and common shotpoint. The operators are read by an independent loop at the beginning of execution phase.
Prestack Time Migration

TIKIM patch
Kirchhoff prestack time migration The current version of TIKIM corresponds to development level 4116. The current patch reference is PP_TIKIM4100_7203 and runs on RHEL4.3 on PC platforms. New versions are produced regularly, so you can benefit from new developments, improvements, and optimizations as soon as validation is complete. An updated version of the TIKIM Best Practice guide is available (version 3) and is based on TIKIM patch 720 It is recommended to use the last available patch version of TIKIM. However you should not change the version of this module when production processing of a project has already started. For further information on TIKIM patches, refer to the release notes of each individual patch.
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History of TIKIM patches

Patch Name P_TIKIM3100_7102 Date Level Modifications
12 July 2005 1 Dec 2005
3100
Modifications to correct use of the following options: RAYTRACE/TOPO and REMUTE/OFFSET.
PP_TIKIM3100_7104
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Modifications to correct use of the following options: - RESTART combined with LFD or SELEC, - Value of word1 for weight traces with option TOPO.
PP_TIKIM3100_7106
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3100
Cancels and replaces patch 7104: - Improves results when running TIKIM on DEL 1950.
P_TIKIM4100_720
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4100
New standard TIKIM production release version 720 for Geocluster 4.1; replaces PP_TIKIM3100_7104. There are a series of changes in the coding. TRAFILE, NUMTRA, IDTRA, VTREND, CORNER, WBLA, WBLB, ATREND. New Parameters: - MICROSEC: statics now expressed in microseconds, - GSPREAD: Geometrical spreading compensation, - LAYERS: Pre-MOMUL multi-layers processing, - MIRROR: Migration of OBC peg leg multiple, _ LGA, LVC, GTREND: Converted waves with a coherent new converted waves VMB methodology. Improvements: - Optimized De-Migration: much faster, interpolation prior to TIKIM no longer necessary (new anti-alias filter) - Coherency CMP / SP-Rec coordinates check during TIKIM-IN phase. Words 43, 44 and 60 to 63 must be updated for migration. DEMIG or ZEROOFF options. - WTRESH option now available. - F2 format (option) available for TIKIM-IN cst files, - Option MUTEIN: removal of zero samples (constant water layer) on TIKIM-IN cst files. - High resolution parameters now available: DTMAP, DLINMAP, DCDPMAP.
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Patch Name P_TIKIM4100_720 (continued)
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Bug correction: SELEC in TIKIM-OU: selection of valid traces.
Note: HAL patch no longer required for Gct level 4100.

P_TIKIM4100_7201 P_TIKIM4100_7203
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Corrects for incorrect results when parameter LAYER is coded. The following modifications have been made since P_TIKIM4100_7202: Partial stack Prevents generation of wrong velocities with OBC option. Correction problem due to insufficient memory.
Warning: This patch must be used with the patches MDG_CSTSUBS4100_1843 and S_HAL4100_1310.
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3D Surface Related Multiple Elimination (SRME)

MOMUL patch
Like the TIKIM module, new versions of the MOMUL patch module are produced regularly, so you can benefit from new developments, improvements, and optimizations as soon as validation is complete. The developments described below refer to the patch P_MOMUL4100_080. It is recommended to use the last available patch version of the MOMUL software. However you should not change the version of a module when production processing of a project has already started.
Distribution
This software is now distributed exclusively as a patch to implement the 3D SRME methodology. You will find below a brief description of each module in the 3D SRME package.
Brief description of each module

3D surface related multiple modeling MOMUL
This module allows the construction of a surface related multiple model in shotpoint collection, for any acquisition geometry. There are three main options in the program: Iterative option (IT): The multiples that are modeled are the reverberations of the primary reflected waves generated by the sea floor and its neighboring layers (double travelpath and peglegs). Primaries option (PR): The program outputs only the primaries computed as previously described in the IT option.
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Surface multiples PegLegs option (PG): The input data is used as an areal source record to be propagated and reverberated within the reflectivity volume. The output traces are synthesized by modelling the wavefronts traveling between the reflectors and the free surface. The wavefields are extrapolated by using the one way wave equation in the f-k domain (phase shift) within the constant velocity assumption. An input flattened migrated section (prepared by the module MULIN) is interpreted as a reflectivity model of the soil.
Sea floor layer extraction from time migrated data
MULIN
This module extracts from a migrated section (time) the constant thickness layer surrounding the sea floor for later use in the module MOMUL (model based multiples modelling using wave equation extrapolators). The constant thickness layer is defined by using a water bottom library (LIBRI FD) and by coding the values of thicknesses surrounding this horizon (LA above and LB under).
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Prestack Depth Migration

KIMIP patch
Like the TIKIM module, new versions of the KIMIP patch modules are produced regularly, so you can benefit from new developments, improvements, and optimizations as soon as validation is complete. The developments described below refer to the version integrated in the current release and correspond to the patch P_PSDM4100E_314. It is recommended to use the last available patch version of the PSDM software. However you should not change the version of a module when production processing of a project has already started.
Distribution
This software is now fully integrated in the current Geocluster release. You will find below a brief description of each module in the PSDM package.
Brief description of each module

GeoVista library LIBRI GV
This library defines the geometrical characteristics of the survey for pre-stack depth migration, in particular, the size and mesh of the acquisition zone where theoretical sources are defined, as well as the size and mesh of the image.
Creation of the data files to be migrated by KIMIP
KIMTR
This module reads seismic input traces and generates, for each input file, an output trace file and two trace header files suitable for subsequent processing in KIMIP. Input traces are rejected if they are flagged as invalid, or if the source or receiver position is outside the acquisition limits defined in the associated LIBRI GV.
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Geocluster 5.0 New Batch Modules and Major Updates
KIMIP library
LIBRI KI
This library defines a subset of an imaging survey defined by LIBRI GV, subsequently migrated by one single KIMIP job. It is used for the traveltime computation and for the KIMIP migration.
Smooth velocity traces
SMOTH
This module smooths the input volume of velocity parameter traces in the three directions. The output files are used as input by the traveltime computation module TTRAY.
Traveltime map computation
TTRAY
This module computes traveltimes and amplitude coefficients (Greens attributes) using a ray-tracing algorithm. In case of multi-pathing, the module retains one of the following arrivals according to the chosen option: most energetic arrival, or fastest arrival, or shortest ray-path arrivals, or arrivals that have the minimum velocity contrast along their raypath. Both down going and up-going rays are allowed. It allows to define the elevation of the theoretical source positions. On input, the program requires a 3D velocity model, previously smoothed by SMOTH.
Traveltime velocity
TTVEL
This module is used to select and resample the velocity traces of a 3D survey before traveltime computation with WEIKO.
WEIKO
This module computes traveltime maps, either via fast solving of the eikonal equation in the celerity domain (first arrival), either via solving the two-way wave equation with a finite difference algorithm (higher-energy).
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In the first case, the problem is solved by integrating the eikonal equation downwards. It avoids the generation of upgoing headwaves and can compute travel times with turning waves and head waves.
TOPAK
This module uses similar computation schemes as module WEIKO, with some differences in the implementation. It computes traveltime maps within anisotropic velocity models, either with a constant anisotropy axis (vertical or horizontal), or with a varying anisotropy axis (TTI). It also allows to define the elevation of the theoretical source positions.
3D prestack Kirchhoff depth migration
KIMIP
Performs a Kirchhoff prestack depth migration using traveltimes computed by WEIKO, TOPAK or TTRAY. The program uses a cubic interpolation of traveltimes in order to remove artefact effects. A simplified Beylkin scheme is implemented for better Amplitude Preservation. A variable depth sampling option is available for time computing optimization. As an option, KIMIP allows the user to migrate: 2D datasets; Vertical Seismic Profiles (PSV); converted wave data and/or data with different elevations for sources and receivers (OBS, OBC, etc.). Parallelized and non-parallelized versions are available.
Voronoi fold compensation
VORNI
This module compensates amplitude distortions due to fold irregularities resulting from 3D survey acquisition patterns. The program computes weighting coefficients for each input trace according to the surface area assigned to that trace. The results are used by KIMIP to apply the Voronoi fold compensation.
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PSDM related patches

The following modules are used in PSDM training processing sequences but not integrated in the Geocluster 5.0 release. They are distributed as patches available from the Geocluster user support group (gvrsupport.master@cggveritas.com).
Dip calculation
DIPCA
DIPCA creates volumes of inline and crossline direction dip from an input seismic dataset. The dips can subsequently be used in a variety of ways: To perform structurally consistent filtering of the seismic data (noise attenuation) or of attributes such as velocity, To create a structural model, generated in the form of .cst files (in UNITS format) that can be subsequently read by KIMIP and the travel time computation modules TTRAY and TOPAK. The patch E_DIPCA_22 must be coded in your job together with the following patches: E_ADJ3D_17 E_ADJ4D_09 E_DIPLIB_12_4100 E_PADMT_11 E_REGND_16 E_TFLAG_04
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History of KIMIP patches

Patch Name P_PSDM4100C_314 Date Modifications
October 2006
New version of production PSDM patch, replaces previous patch P_PSDM4100_312. Module TOPOR included in the PSDM package. This patch must be used with patch S_HAL4100_1304. Major changes are:
- New capability to handle TTI model in TTRAY, TOPAK, SMOTH and TTVEL. - New option for using dip model in KIMIP. - KIMIP: updated Dip convention, removal of parameters VORNI, NPE (replaced by environment variables). - Removal of IT parameters, - Performance improvements for PowerPC processors,
KIMIP: Coding change: new parameters for dip convention: DIPINL, DIPCRL. Parameters MACHIN=PCC and NPE now optional. TTRAY: - Anisotropy: parameters DELTVAL, EPSIVAL, NONEVAL, NTWOVAL and NTHRVAL removed. TOPAK: - New parameters for dip convention: DIPINL, DIPCRL., SMOOTH: - New parameter coding for TTI model: INFILE, INTYPE, QCOUT
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Patch Name P_PSDM4100D_314
Date
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March 2007
Module TOPOR included in the PSDM package. This patch must be used with S_HAL4100_1310 (replaces S_HAL4100_1304). KIMIP: - Input DIPCA cst files use UNITLESS format (case TTI only). VORNI: - Module also exists as standard Geocluster module. TOPOR: - New parameter TOPODIR. KIMTR: - Bug fix for use of F2 format, F5 recommended.

P_PSDM4100E_314
April 2007
New version PSDM production patch, replaces P_PSDM4100D_314. This patch must be used with S_HAL4100_1310 or later. News and improvements: Dip formats: This patch supports the UNITS format for dip files, a check is done on word 3. UNITLESS dip format no longer supported KIMIP: - Module now compatible with a wider range of data formats (cst files). - DCDP, CLINE: program now runs correctly with unusual DCDP and DLINE values (such as DCDP 16.667). KIMTR: - NMO correction test now performed automatically (bit 20 of word 3): if NMO already applied if set, jobs aborts with error message. TTRAY: - DELTA, EPSILON: Module now automatically checks types of input files.
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Prestack Depth Migration (continued)

Input wave equation 3D data INWET
Using input traces, this module creates files that are used by the wave equation migration modules such as SRMIP, RSMIP or RSDEM. INWET outputs transposed 3D data binary files: velocity traces, migrated traces and anisotropy parameters (sampled in depth) as well as extrapolated traces (sampled in discrete fourier transform). Input traces are composed of post-stack 3D data. They can be sorted by LINECDP or conversely. Note that INWET manages decimal sample interval values. To handle large 3D datasets, the input data can be split and stored in several files.
Output wave equation 3D data
OUWET
This module is used to output velocity traces, migrated traces or time traces from files created by INWET or other wave equation sequence modules. It performs the exact inverse transposition of INWET, that is, from planes to traces. To optimize the execution of this program, or of any program that handles large volumes of 3D data, it is strongly recommended to consult the system administrator on available computing resources (disk and memory capacity).
SRMIP
The developments described below refer to the version integrated in the current release and correspond to patch P_SRMIP4100_395.
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3D wave equation prestack depth migration
SRMIP
SRMIP implements a pre-stack (common source or common receiver gathers) depth migration using wave equation algorithm. The migration is performed by a sequence INMIG V, SRMIP OP, SRMIP IN, SRMIP MI, SRMIP OU. During the SRMIP MI phase, the prestack data is re-gridded, regularized over the imaging grid and datumed on a fixed plane (bwave phase). The migration process consists in extrapolating (explicit scheme) the up-going wavefield and the down-going wavefield for each depth slice, and computing the correlation between the two fields. It produces two results, the migrated section and the illumination, which is analog to a time variant fold. The final migrated volume is obtained by stacking separately the migrated and illumination traces and by dividing the migration by the illumination.
3D wave equation preSDM angle gathers
SRANG
SRANG is part of the pre-stack depth migration processing sequence. This module transforms the pre-stack depth migration harmonic gathers output by SRMIP into reflection angle gathers. The HA option performs this transformation (harmonic to angle gathers). Option AH performs the reverse transformation which is used to obtain the image (harmonic 0) from the gather processed through the appropriate user sequence.
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Poststack Depth Migration

RSMIP
Like the TIKIM and KIMIP modules, new versions of the RSMIP patch module are produced regularly, so you can benefit from new developments, improvements, and optimizations as soon as validation is complete. The developments described below refer P_RSMIP4100_312 and P_RSDEM4100_312 to the patch version
It is recommended to use the last available patch version of the software. However you should not change the version of a module when production processing of a project has already started. The use of this patch implies the use of patch MDG_INOUMIG4100_1735.
Distribution
This software is delivered exclusively as a patch. You will find below a brief description of the modules.
Brief description of the module

3D poststack wave equation depth migration RSMIP
RSMIP implements a post-stack depth migration on parallel machines, using wave equation algorithm. The migration is performed by a sequence INMIG V, INMIG F, RSMIP OP, RSMIP MI, OUMIG I. The wavefield, in the form of frequency planes, is extrapolated (in depth) through layers having constant thicknesses. The 2D extrapolation operators can be broken down to a 1D polynomial which are expressed as a weighted sum of Chebychev polynomials, the weighting coefficients being computed by the Remez algorithm. The aim is to perform a Poststack depth migration using operators similar to the ones used in the wave equation migration module SRMIP. For recursive
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operators (IMPL3D), a standalone is mandatory to get a file readable by RSMIP MI. This method assures a better circularity for the impulse response of the extrapolation operator than with splitting methods in x and y. Also, the repositioning of events is more accurate and dips up to 80 degrees can be imaged. For each depth-slice, each frequency is independently extrapolated. The results of RSMIP MI are Image planes which are then transformed in Image TRACES using the OUMIG I module. This patch implements the velocity scans and the Horizon migration.
3D poststack depth demigration
RSDEM
RSDEM is part of the[(INMIG-RSMIP) or (SRMIP-INMIG)]-RSDEMOUMIG processing sequence. RSDEM can perform either isotropic or anisotropic demigration. RSDEM applies the transposed RSMIP operators to perform post-stack demigration. From an input wavefield (expressed in the form of frequency planes) f( x,y,z,t=0), the demigration will reconstruct f( x,y,z=0,t).
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Stratigraphic Inversion
INVEI
The developments described below refer to the patch version P_INVEI4100_519, for Geocluster 4.1. This patch is designed to work on Linux (RHEL 4.3) on the following machines: PC clusters. Single PC Geodesktop or Laptop; it cannot run on a local SUN unix machine. The use of this patch implies the use of patch S_HAL4100_1310.
Brief description of the module

Simultaneous elastic inversion of multiple angle stacks INVEI
INVEI performs a simultaneous stratigraphic inversion of multiple angle stacks (below the critical angle) in order to derive the following attributes: Vp, Vs and . The computation is carried out using the following input data: A minimum of two angle stacks. One wavelet for each angle stack. An a-priori model containing at least three properties (Vp, Vs, ). Some a-priori constraints, such as Vp/Vs per layer, and so on. During the input phase, input traces are reformatted into internal files needed for the inversion. After the last trace is read, the module will send all the files to the computer where the parallel inversion will be performed (local machine or cluster). The result of the inversion (a model containing properties for Vp, Vs and which match the seismic) will then be saved in the user directory. The adopted polarity convention is the one defined by Aki & Richards which states that an increase of Vp, Vs or leads to a positive reflection coefficient.
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History of INVEI patches

Patch Name P_INVEI4100_511 Date Modifications
Apr 2007
This evolutive patch is compiled for Geocluster 4100 and must be used with patch S_HAL4100_1310. New features: Optimization for cluster management, resources management. Production: The percentage of completion of a job available to users: number of processed blocks updated every 10mns. LIBRI GR: parameter LGR no longer used in INVEI. The geometry used by INVEI is directly retrieved from the initial SIModel. New listing information. Invalid model traces remain invalid after inversion, default setting was removed. Environment: - In local mode, INVEI no longer needs any cluster descriptor file defined in the job manager - In cluster mode (MACHINE=PCC), environment variable CLUSTER_MPICH must be set.
P_INVEI4100_519
Nov 2007
This corrective patch is compiled for Geocluster 4100 and must be used with patch S_HAL4100_1310. New features compared to patch P_INVEI4100_511: Added new test to check if critical angle is reached: if yes, reflectivity set to 0. INVEI now manages different sample intervals between seismic and wavelets. Automatic wavelet windowing no longer applied: all wavelet samples are used. Optimization of data transfer (certain files now copied instead of being moved) and memory allocation. INVEI can be used for grid computing
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Release Notes Parallelized Software
Parallelized Software
Parallelized modules are designed to run with multi-processor UNIX systems or Linux PC cluster systems. The following modules require large computing resources. They are designed and optimized to run with specific hardware configurations: Prestack migration programs: KIMIP package, PSMIP, SRMIP, TIKIM. Post stack migration programs: DTMIP, GTMIP, PSPIC, RSMIP. These modules are available on the following platforms..
Parallelized SUN PC/L package DTMIP X Function
3D large grid post stack F-XY depth migration. Distributed for PC/L as a patch. 3D large grid post stack F-XY time migration. Distributed for PC/L as a patch. 3D prestack Kirchhoff depth migration. Distributed in KIMIP patch. 3D prestack Stolt/Phase-shift time migration. 3D post stack Remez-Soubaras depth migration. Targeted model based multiples modelling. Distributed for PC/L as a patch. Kirchhoff prestack time migration. Distributed in TIKIM patch. Traveltime map computation. Distributed in KIMIP patch. Traveltime computation. Distributed in KIMIP patch.
GTMIP
KIMIP PSMIP RSMIP MOMUL TIKIM WEIKO TOPAK
X X X X X X X
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Parallelized SUN PC/L package SRMIP TTRAY SMOTH TDROV RVDMO RSDEM X X X X X X
Function
Wave equation prestack depth migration. Distributed in SRMIP patch. Traveltime map compensation. Distributed in KIMIP patch. Smooth velocity traces. Distributed in KIMIP patch. 3D stratigraphic inversion. 3D reverse DMO along any azimuth on offset cube data. 3D post stack Remez-Soubaras depth demigration.
Note on cluster platforms

Batch parallel applications will be generated for both of the following platforms: G5 XServe under MacOS X IBM JS21(Darwin 7.5) under RHEL 4.3.
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Release Notes Modules Removed from this Release
Modules Removed from this Release

The following obsolete modules were removed from the release:
Obsolete Module COSTA CRLIB DEPTI DMSTK DTBXY DTMIG ELIVA ETQ2D FKKFI GAINC GTMIG GVTLB LDLIB LIBRI DB LIBRI TD QCDBU RDLIB ROVTL SVEND SVLIB TDETQ Replacement Module / Application
WASTA XPSID + Dynamo DEPTV KIDMO, RVDMO ETQXY + XPS DTMIP, RSMIP INVEI + StrataVista ETQXY + XPS FKF3D Not replaced GTMIP XPS Application XPS Application QCXPS + XPS DTMIP, RSMIP QCXPS + XPS XPS Application INVEI + StrataVista XPS Application XPS Application ETQXY + XPS
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Obsolete Module TDROV TDRTI VDMUL VOXEL PIPER SIPCO
Replacement Module / Application
INVEI + StrataVista INVEI + StrataVista SMMOD Not replaced Not replaced Not replaced
Were also removed the NVxxx modules (GEONAV package), which are available on demand.
Modules Planned for Replacement in next Release

We intend to remove from the next Geocluster release the following obsolete modules:
Obsolete Module ADGIN AMPVO COHAD DEABS EXNAT FANMO, HDNMO FPSRD, FPSWR INVEL LASUB LIBRI CT, DI, FE,GI, HH, PI, TV Replacement Module - status
If replaced AVONT + AVO analyzer COH3D DFABS if released SINAT HFNMO ONSET interactive application HDPIC ADAPT All dependencies must also be removed
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Release Notes Modules Planned for Replacement in next Release
Obsolete Module LINTP LISTA, LISTS PLOTX RABIC, SCINT (+FXINT, FXYIN) SPASM, STADE, NOISE, NOISY TDPIK TSFIL (+HDFIL)
Replacement Module - status
DECTP TVATS If replaced REG2D, REG3D, REMOC FDNAT FBPIK SCFIL
Geocluster Data Library modules to be removed from next release

Now that the XPS application is in full use, we intend to remove from the next Geocluster release the following data library modules: LIBRI CT, LIBRI DI, LIBRI FE, LIBRI GI, LIBRI HH, LIBRI PI, LIBRI TV Note: This modification means that these library modules will now access XPS datasets instead of using the GSL coding in Geocluster jobs.
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Release Notes
This chapter provides detailed information concerning the interactive applications in the Geocluster 5.0 release. You will find the following sections:
List of Applications Modifications to the Applications Interactive Applications Removed from this Release Interactive Applications Planned for Replacement in next Release
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Release Notes List of Applications
List of Applications
Introduction
You will find below the list of interactive applications organized by type of application. Applications with modified versions are highlighted in bold characters. All interactive applications are available on PC Linux platforms; versions for SGI and SUN are no longer available. Refer to Chapter C for applications that concern the production environment (Geodesk, Kereon, XJob, XMod, and XPro); auxiliary data management (XPS); and seismic data management (DDAM, SDS). Refer to Chapter F for information concerning training recommendations for interactive applications.
Application Utilities DYNAMO Jseg2Fi
Ver. N
Platforms
Package
Function
1.7.7
2.0
PC/L
PC/L
basic basic
Auxiliary data management
SEG reformatting: dumps, header mapping and create a LIBRI FI.
Calculation & QC: FASTQC
4.2
PC/L
basic
Gridding and contouring, QC and statistic computations QC large number of attribute maps
MAPQC
1.5.1
PC/L
basic
Display / Plot Applications:
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Application CALIX SHOW MECANO
Ver. N
Platforms
Package basic basic
Function Calcomp file display On-screen display of PLOTX raster files
1.5.0
PC/L PC/L
2.3.1
PC/L
CGMPLOT To create templates to position elements on a section plot basic Seismic data analysis and display
TEAMVIEW
1.12.1 PC/L
Signal Processing: MATCALC Statics: SDITR Velocities: LIBDL
4.0.9
PC/L
CALC
Seismic data QC and analysis
4.5.1
PC/L
basic
Static corrections and repositioning
3.4.2. PC/L
basic
Interactive quality control on velocity picking Display, animation and picking on a set of related 2D sections
MVP
7.1
PC/L
basic
Well Seismic: EYEFUL LGEDIT AVO analysis: AVO Analyzer
2.3.9 2.3.6
PC/L PC/L
WELLSEIS Borehole seismic data display and analysis WELLSEIS Well log editing
1.6.1
PC/L
basic
AVO analysis
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Release Notes Modifications to the Applications
Modifications to the Applications

You will find below the main corrections and developments that have been made to the interactive applications.
Geounix and tcl applications

All geophysical utility programmes are now available in Geocluster 5.0 via a single menu item from Kereon or directly from the command line.
Dynamo
Version 1.7.7.
Modifications
Corrections for the following modules: separ_read, form_read, lib_read, XPS_in, New job creation: when a new job is created, the Save option is now available. When an empty job is opened, the application no longer crashes. Help menu: three options are now available from the Help menu: - Documentation: opens the on-line documentation via Acroread, - Xps dictionary: opens the Xps dictionary, - About version: gives the number and date of the current version. The version number and the pixmap icon in the upper right corner ahve been removed from the File>Modify, File>Save_as and Edit>Build_Macro options. When application is closed, all opened windows are now closed as well.
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List of Modifications
SAR 12958 1.7.1 SDR 12596
Module "Append": output file is sometimes corrupted. Add the possibility for the users to remove all messages in the message zone at the bottom of the main and modules windows In Xps_save parameter sheet, it shouldn't be necessary to press return in the Version field. Node-lock counted license file for PC with HOSTID=VDH=lmvdh option doesn't work for Dynamo application (wrong client library?). The list of selected idents is now available when using the XPS_IN module. New CGGVeritas logo.
SAR 13413 1.7.3
SAR 14228
1.7.4
SDR 14241
1.7.5
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FastQC
Version 4.2.
Modifications done for version 4.2

New Options
In the Main Window you can now import grids from GDM format files. The 2D Display Window contains a new zoom tool which allows you to move the zoomed area. In the graphic windows (2D Display, Crossplot, and Location windows) you can change the color (black/white toggle) of the window background.
Modified Options
In the Main Window and the 2D Display Window, the Processing > Scattered datasets > Local Z deviation option creates three new scattered datasets: minimum, maximum, and maximum-minimum. In the 2D Display Window, the window that opens when you select View > Legend contains the following new features: the Min and Max fields on the vertical axis allow you to define the interval of values to display for the Number of Values. the Rescale button rescales the minimum and maximum limits of the vertical axis on the interval defined for the horizontal axis (Visible values). The following changes have been made to the Tools > Profile > Scattered Data function in the 2D Display Window: You can move the rectangle by a step given in the [P0,P1] direction or in the direction perpendicular to [P0,P1] using the arrow buttons. When the option Realtime update of display is selected, the graphic area of the Scattered Dataset Profile window is updated simultaneously when you modify the selection zone defined by the rectangle in the 2D Display Window.
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When you move the cursor on the profile a yellow line perpendicular to the [P0,P1]line appears in the 2D Display Window, indicating the position of the cursor on the profile. When you select a point on the profile all the points in the 2D Display Window with Z values the same as the Z value of the selected point on the profile are selected. You can accumulate selections by pressing Shift. The same applies when you select points in the 2D Display Window: the corresponding point are selected on the profile and you can accumulate selections by pressing Shift.
Distribution/Environment
There is a new FastQC environment variable: $FASTQC_GDM_FILE_GRID which defines the default directory displayed in the window that opens when you select Data > Import > Grid > GDM File in the Main Window. There is a new FastQC resource: FastQC*graphicViewBackground which allows you to define the default color of the graphic windows (black or white).

New options
A preference file .fastqc is created (or updated if it exists already) in your home directory each time you quit FastQC. This file contains information concerning the size of the Main Window and graphic windows and the symbol and size of points in scattered dataset displays. The Tools menu contains new options: Main Window Size and Graphic Window Size. The 2D Display Window contains a new menu option View > Point Style. It functions in the same way as the Point Style option in the Main Window.
Modified options
In the Main Window, the Tools > History option provides information on all data objects, even those calculated in the 2D Display Window.
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The Gridding window contains new methods of gridding: - Min, Max, Min-Max. In the 2D Display Window, the Data > Plot menu option has been modified. You can add a second logo to the plot. In addition, in the Layout section, you can create, modify, and delete text boxes on the graphic. In the 2D Display Window, the Select > Scattered Dataset Attributes option has been improved. There is a new option Display Name for the name attribute. The Legend window accessed from the 2D Display Window contains a new button Real Value Bounds. It allows you to redefine the interval of values using the first real values within the interval defined in the Visible Values zone.

New options
In the Main Window there is a new function for importing seismic data files. All graphics windows contain new window size options In the Main Window and the 2D Display Window, a new option Processing > Scattered datasets > Statistical Operations allows you to create a new scattered dataset from another one (or a part of another one if it is displayed in the 2D Display Window) with conditions for the keys.
Two new environment variables have been added to the fastqc.option file of the distribution: $FASTQC_SEISMIC_FILE $FASTQC_SEISMIC_FILE_CONFIGURATION
Modified options
The information windows for scattered datasets (accessed from the Main Window and the 2D Display Window) have been improved.
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In the 2D Display Window, the Create > Scattered Dataset > From Selection option contains a new feature that allows you to discard points with z equal to the non-value.

Modified options
In the Main Window and the 2D Display Window, the Processing > Grids > Contouring menu option contains two new options: you can select the number of decimal digits for the labels. Smooth Grade option: you can choose to compute the contour points without interpolation or select a large, medium or small step for interpolation. The algorithm used by the Processing > Grids > Contouring menu option has been changed. In the Main Window and the 2D Display Window, the Processing > Back Sampling option contains a new option for selecting either a bicubic or bilinear interpolation. The algorithm used by the Processing > Back Sampling menu option has been changed. In the 2D Display Window, the window that opens when you select View > Composition contains an option for displaying contour sets with or without labels. This option is available only if the contour set was computed with labels.

The CGGVeritas logo has replaced the CGG logo.
New Options
Double Integral and Double Compact formats were added to the standard file formats: scattered dataset and grid files; Double Integral and Double Compact formats added. contour set, fault set, and polygon files; Double Integral format added.
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Modified Options
In scattered datasets, the X, Y, and Z coordinates are of doubleprecision floating-point value type. In the 2D Display Window, when you select Edit > Change to modify scattered dataset points, grid cells, or contour lines, a mini-spreadsheet opens displaying the values. In these tables, non values are represented by -10000000000000 instead of -1e+30.
FastQC is available for Linux2.4 and Linux2.6-x86_64 platforms. The SunOs platform is no longer available.

Modified Options
In the Load User Defined Files window (Data > Import > Scattered datasets > User Defined File option in the Main Window) there is a new Merge All toggle. If you select this option only one scattered dataset is created, containing points from all the input files; if you do not select this option a scattered dataset is created for each input file. In the Load Seismic File window (Data > Import > Scattered datasets > Seismic Data File option in the Main Window) the following changes have been made: Merge All toggle: if you select this option, only one scattered dataset is created, containing points from all the input files; if you do not select this option a scattered dataset is created for each input file. You can create seismic item definition files and select a definition file in this window. In the Create Scattered Datasets from Selections&Seismic File window (Create > Scattered dataset > From Selection and File option in the Main Window) you can now select a configuration file.
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In the Main Window, the Tools > Alias and Tools > Axes and Units options have been merged. The Point Style function has also been added to this option. The option is now Tools > Alias, Axes and Units, Point Style. In the Main Window, when you use the Tools > Point Style option, the changes made to the symbol and size are applied immediately. In the Main Window, the options in the Help menu have been changed to Version and Contents. In the 2D Display Window, you can now modify the width of the alias tools list. There is also a new Zoom on Select tool which allows you to define automatically the zoom area according to the selection made in the graphic zone. The View > View Port option in the 2D Display Window now has two suboptions: Define and Auto computation. The Define option corresponds to the function available previously in the View > View Port option). The Auto computation option is new. It recomputes automatically the view port according to the area covered by the data displayed in the 2D Display window. The Tools > Profile option in the 2D Display Window now has two suboptions: Grid and Scattered Dataset. The Grid option corresponds to the function available previously in the Tools > Profile option. The Scattered Dataset option is new. It allows you to create a profile for one or more scattered datasets selected in the 2D Display Window.
There is a new FastQC environment variable: $FASTQC_SEISMIC_FILE_DEFINITION. It defines the default directory for the seismic definition files listed in the window that opens when you select Data > Import > Scattered Datasets > Seismic Data File in the Main Window.
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Modifications
You will find below a table indicating the details of the FastQC software modifications.
Application Version SR
SDR 13294 SDR 13295 3.4.4 SAR 13678 SDR 12789
Short description
In Display/2D/View/Legend allow the user to give the horizontal axis Max and min visible values Create a new tool allowing the computation of the area inside a polygon automatically designed on a scatter from a range of values of the displayed attribute If you have two visu2D windows with non orthonormal representations, zoom is not linked even if the option is selected. Associate 3D Grid definition and Inline/Crossline/Attribute datasets from XPS to load and display it as an azimuthed grid in FastQC Tools/History should give information for all the datasets listed in the main window even if the operation has been performed in the 2D display window. To make client presentations easier (ppt files) there should be a way to give the display window size. To quickly identify the display windows it could be useful to have in the window title the names of the datasets existing in those windows. In Create Scatter from Selection dialog, add a toggle to discard points with Z equal to non-value Replace DGI Libraries for contouring and back-sampling Code X Y and Z fields in scatters in double (floating) format Colored histogram: add a visible min-max for the vertical axis of the legend. Allow white background and reverse-video colors in FastQc working windows.
SDR 13453
3.6.0
SDR 13454 SDR 13455
3.7.0 3.8.1. 4.0.2 4.2
SDR 13913 SDR 12897 SDR 14091 SDR 14258 SDR 14663
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MatCalc
Version 4.0.9 This version of MatCalc now includes certain features previously available in the WaveCalc application which was removed from the Geocluster release.
New features
Main window: Keypad buttons are now grouped to differentiate each process group by a different background color. Processes: Operator calculus: minimum phase operators with spectral replacement can now be designed. Resampling: new wavelet data resampling. Wavelet modelling: new features for defining and editing different types of wavelets.
Modifications
You will find below a table indicating the details of the MatCalc software modifications.
MATCALC 3.2.1
SAR 13778 SDR 12898 SAR 13097 Crash in coloring option New interactive process to separate random noise from coherent events, based on SPARN algorithm The Help button in Matcalc window does not launch the corresponding documentation (problem observed when working in StrataVista) "On line help" via Netscape (.html) or Acroread (pdf) or ps version doesnt display all the images. There is no doc directory under the application directory.
3.2.1
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4.0.0 SAR 10945 SAR 11120 With big size files the application works very slowly and crashes. When there is no flexlm license available and when USER_LANG variable is set to francais, the user is not informed by the message from FLEXlm licence server "No licence for MatCalc on this machine". If the number of Libri CN is coded without "zero" ( ex : LIBRI CN 1 ), it is not found by Matcalc. The coding must be LIBRI CN 01 . Matcalc doesnt process the "F" filters like Geocluster. See the description of the SHIFT parameter in LIBRI CN. When rotating cube, the option does not show grids properly and selecting traces from well position is wrong. Wavecalc and Matcalc output filters have the CMX parameter coded, but the CMX parameter has been dropped from the documentation for LIBRI CN MatCalc3.1 shifts the input wavelet to the right, if the former is in CST format (there is no problem in the ancient version MatCalc2.0.) For a given wavelet, the minfaz equiv. calculated by MatCalc is diff. than the one calculated by WCalc. Moreover, the 0-faz equiv. output from MC does not have the requested length. In the MatCalc option "SCAN --> TIME", the "APPLY" button remains inactive. Cannot load Subvolume; When loading in cst data, it is not possible to select on cdp and time. MATCALC 3 .1 map view does not work properly. It shows a non existing point. MatCalc crashes using MRMS calculation. Allow MatCalc to print processing parameters after saving them in the wavelet history. Add Parameter to define the water velocity when creating a ghost.
SAR 11228
SAR 11231 SAR 11290 SAR 12150 4.0.0 SAR 12471
SAR 12544
SAR 12662 SAR 13256 SAR 13952 SAR 14025 SDR 8153 4.0.0 SDR 11347
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MATCALC 3.2.1
4.0.0 4.0.0 SDR 11477 SDR 13933 Add an optional SHIFT parameter in LIBCN output dialog box. Integrate WaveCalc application in MatCalc
Sditr
Version 4.5 No major changes were made to the present version of Sditr since the former version issued with Geocluster 4.1.
Modifications
You will find below a table indicating the details of the Sditr software modifications.
SDITR 4.5.0
SAR 11738 The Plot produced from the plot option of the Repositionning Raw stack window now shows the same trace length as the one displayed in the Repositioning window. Correction of the position of the file creation date in CGM Plots. Modification to obtain correct Velocity Analysis window displays. When too many shot points are loaded in the application (via the input .cst file), a explicit error message is now displayed. Modification to obtain correct values for the last computed residual static. New CGGVeritas logo.
SAR 11743 4.4.3 SAR 11744 SAR 13443 SAR 13878 4.5.0
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Teamview
Version 1.12.1
Modifications
You will find below a list of the main changes made to the current version of Teamview: Enhanced bundled views: a stack view is now available, Redesigned Movie features (gather, overlay, stack, views), New viewer to display header attribute map, Enhanced time slices (color scales), Dynamic palette display, Resize button to fit window or work area size, Cursors linked based on header words, Use of mouse wheel to scroll windows up and down. Process input and result now available in concertina and multiple view, Data loading by drag and drop from Kereon, Inport/Export 3D Grid definition from/to XPS, Mutes for marine data (WB from XPS, header picking), Partial export of data after sorting (CST or SEGY).
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New Applications
AVOAnalyzer
Version 1.6.1. This new tool is a user friendly application designed for computing and vizualizing AVO attributes and anomalies. It offers the following features: Multi-project, multi-time analysis of AVO/AVA attributes, Gather analysis, Partial (angle) stack analysis, Crossplot analysis, Basemap analysis, Well log analysis.
Features
The AVOAnalyser main windows:
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JSeg2Fi
Version 2.0. This new tool is a user friendly application designed for analyzing dumps of SEGY or SEGD data in order to produce a LIBRI FI for Geocluster. In most cases, a suitable LIBRI FI can be generated in a few clicks. This application is also very flexible and can be customized for format detection tests as well as mapping Geocluster header words. JSeg2Fi has an internal database that already contains a wide variety of formats and mappings.
Features
The JSeg2Fi main window:
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MapQc
Version 1.5.1 MapQC is a new application which allows you to run efficient quality controls on a large number of datasets output from XPS.
Features
MapQC allows you to: Select and display attributes in the form of attribute maps for any number of datasets stored in XPS; you can use any attributes for the horizontal and vertical axes, Navigate through these datasets; the selected datasets can be displayed as fluid movies, Display statistical information for each attribute map, Produce screen shot images in various standard formats for reporting and presentation purposes Customize the color palettes and color mapping (that is, the way data ranges and null values are displayed).
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Features
The MapQc main window:
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Geocluster 5.0 Interactive Applications Removed from this Release
Interactive Applications Removed from this Release

The following applications were removed from the current release: Exam replaced by Teamview Geounix replaced by Geodesk Geowork replaced by Geodesk Velcom replaced by GeoVel WaveCalc integrated in Matcalc
Interactive Applications Planned for Replacement in next Release

Depending on the finalization status of replacement applications, we intend to remove from the next Geocluster release the following obsolete interactive applications: Geopad replaced by Kereon Libdl replaced by GeoVel Sditr integrated in the Statics workstation
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Release Notes
Training Recommendations
This chapter provides details on training recommendations for the interactive applications that are included in the Geocluster 5.0 release. You will find the following sections:
Interactive Applications Note on Geodesk training
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Introduction
You will find below the list of interactive applications that are included in the Geocluster 5.0 release and for which training recommendations are specified. As a general rule, users that are already familiar with an earlier version of a given application do not need training unless specifically mentioned (see Note on Geodesk training on page 4). All necessary information on new features are provided in the release notes and updated versions of the Users guide for each application. For those users that are not familiar with the use of these applications, it is strongly recommended to follow the corresponding training course at one of the CGGVertas University training centers.
List of applications
Application Ver. N Training Package recommended Function Replacement for...
Production Management: Kereon Geodesk
1.6.0 1.5.5
No Yes
basic basic
Geocluster desktop and utilities Planning and management of production tasks
Geopad Geowork Geotapes
Utilities Dynamo Jseg2Fi
1.7.7 2.0 No
basic basic
Auxiliary data management
SEG reformatting: dumps, header mapping and create a LIBRI FI.
New application
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Application
Ver. N
Training Package recommended
Function
Replacement for...
Calculation & QC: FastQC
4.2
Yes
basic
Gridding and contouring, QC and statistic computations QC large number of attribute maps New application
MapQC
1.5.1
No
basic
Display / Plot applications: MECANO
2.3.1
Yes
CGMPLO To create templates to T position elements on a section plot basic Seismic data analysis and display
TEAMVIEW
1.12.1
Yes
Signal Processing: MATCALC
4.0.9
Yes
CALC
Seismic data QC and analysis
AVO analysis: AVO Analyzer
1.6.1
Yes
basic
AVO analysis
New application
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Note on Geodesk training

Geodesk is a new interactive application which is used as a user desktop production tool for Geocluster, from file management to job launching and monitoring. Users that are new to the application are strongly advised to follow the basic Geodesk training course before starting to use this tool. Alternatively, prior coaching from an experienced user will also allow you to start creating and managing your first Geodesk projects easily.
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Patches
This chapter includes the following sections:
List of Patches Included Note on other patches
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List of Patches Included

You will find below the list of patches for the Geocluster release 4.1 that are integrated in the Geocluster 5.0 release (limited to latest version of valid patches): these patches should no longer be coded in your jobs.
Patch Name
MDG_ADAPT4100_1891
Type
NEW
Modules
ADAPT
SR Numbers
PSHDESCRIPTION
New module for adaptive subtraction, replaces LASUB.

14464 14561 11766, 13859, 14416 13815, 13869, 14285
MDG_AMPSO4100_1981
COR
AMPSO
Corrects to avoid a job crash when large numbers of SPs are processed. Corrects for wrong cgm plot results even though calcomp plots are correct. Allows parameters ONE and TWO to be coded normally. Corrects for execution error with parameter STACK. This patch allows to extend the computation of the instantaneous phase to the -PI,PI interval. Corrects taper application error when end of time window is equal to the end of the trace.
MDG_BHTVD4100_1869
COR
BHTVD
MDG_CALSC_1745
COR
CALSC
MDG_COCON4100_1850
EVL
COCON
MDG_CRV3D4100_2001
COR
MDG_CSTSUBS4100_1843
COR
NA
Corrects for errors when reading or writing cst files with HFNMO, HFDMO and TPXPY modules.
13190, 14342
MDG_CVIMU4100_1927
MIX
CVIMU
Corrects the output muted dataset in 2D processing. New parameter XM added to allow definition of the minimum un-muted offset. SAR 13190: correct output mute dataset in 2D case.
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Patch Name
MDG_DECSC4100_1734
Type
COR
Modules
DECSC
SR Numbers
9132, 9349, 11695
PSHDESCRIPTION
Added new parameter D to allow computation of operator in a selected offset range. The default iteration sequence is now SP1, SIS2, CDP3, OFS4. New parameter EXOFS. Obsolete parameters PACK and SIUP0 were removed. New module: forward and reverse Tau-P decomposition. Corrects for wrong results when parameter ANT is coded.
MDG_DECTP4100_1904
COR
DECTP
MDG_DEPTV4100_2007
COR
DEPTV
14023
Corrects for wrong results in velocity trace interpolation. Sample shift bug fix. Added an index at each file saved to avoid overwriting (LI option). New FILOU parameter. Added new parameter MIS for handling missing traces. Removed parameter NOINT parameter, added new parameter INTER added for processing radionavigation traces). Allows management of abnormal radionavigation traces generated by WILOC. Corrects for wrong print format when OPT1 is coded. Allows to process records with different segments using the same channel numbers. Added a warning when number of traces of a shotpoint is smaller than the number off traces defined in the geometry. Option ME: added new parameter RMS; added internal scaling (SCALE) and clipping parameters (CLPMIN, CLPMAX). Allows check of header consistency between main and auxiliary inputs for options AD, DI, MU and SU.
MDG_EDIUK4100_1709
EVL
EDIUK
12909
MDG_EGRID4100_1861
EVL
EGRID
12750, 14397
MDG_ETQXY4100_1998
EVL
ETQXY
14861
MDG_EVERY4100_1974
MIX
EVERY
14021, 14196, 14227, 14378
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Patch Name
MDG_FDNAT4100_1717
Type
NEW
Modules
FDNAT
SR Numbers
PSHDESCRIPTION
New module: Frequency Dependant Noise ATtenuation

13926
MDG_FILTR4100_1690
COR
FILTR
Corrects for wrong results with Fourier Transform. Corrects for a job crash when more than one FKF3D is coded. Option DF: corrects for a job crash with FPE when rounding from a floating point value to an integer. New module: Gather flattening. Allows the coding of two or more modules per job. Allows the coding of two or more modules per job.
MDG_FKF3D4100_1960
COR
FKF3D
14257, 14777
MDG_FLATN4100_1928 MDG_FSFIM4100_1697
NEW COR
FLATN FSFIM
MDG_FXYNA4100_1699
COR
FXYNA
MDG_GSFIL4100_1963
COR
GSFIL
12951
14747
Added new parameters XINC and YINC to define increment of WORDX and WORDY values. Corrects to avoid a job crash in analysis when two GSFIL modules are coded in the same job. Added new option RF for conversion to full dtn and tau0 traces. New module: FK filtering of high density volumes. New production patch for HDPIC. Added new options GL and ZS. New module: high fidelity normal moveout. Corrects errors in TK option.
MDG_HDBOX4100_1903
MIX
HDBOX
14391
MDG_HDFIL4100_1924
NEW
HDFIL
MDG_HDPIC4100_1906 MDG_HEDFI4100_1874 MDG_HFNMO4100_1841
EVL COR MIX
HDPIC HEDFI HFNMO
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Patch Name
MDG_HFSTA4100_1966
Type
EVL
Modules
HFSTA
SR Numbers
14543, 14804
PSHDESCRIPTION
New module: high fidelity static application. This patch corrects for errors in the RS option when output length is lower than input length. The update of word 22 and word 45 is now done correctly. Avoids a job crash when IFTHN is coded without ELSIF or when the output buffer is not coded. Correct for errors in buffer management. New RSMIP option (PERC); Removed parameters NODMF, FAST, MEM. Used (default patch) with modules RSMIP, RSDEM, DTMIP, GTMIP. New modules INWET and OUWET (Wave Equation Volume Transposer) replacing modules INMIG and OUMIG.
MDG_IFTHN4100_1888
COR
IFTHN
14208, 14368
MDG_INOUMIG4100_1798
EVL
INMIG OUMIG
MDG_INOUWET4100_1832
COR
INWET OUWET
MDG_INPOU4100_1827
COR
INPTR, OUTBD, INMRG
12523 13688 13739 13725 14001 14019 14160 14211 14249 14253
Fixes SR:14211,12523,13688,13739,13725,14255 + all modifications since 4100.
MDG_KERNEL4100_1986
COR
KERNEL
Optimization of licence file management. Improvement of printed output listings and memory space management for temporary files (avoids overflow). Corrects for wrong results when using the reverse option. Removes spikes that were generated when parameter LVIn was coded.
MDG_KIDMO4100_1754
COR
KIDMO
13781 13771
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Patch Name
MDG_LASUB4100_1790
Type
COR
Modules
LASUB
SR Numbers
PSHDESCRIPTION
14105
Added new options CA (cascaded) and ML (multiple model). Corrects the application of the mute on the model (SAR14105); parameter LOPX set to 1. Increased the maximum number of time windows allowed from 100 to 1000. Corrects for wrong values when using the XPS option with LIBRI FD. Allows correct update of water-bottom values after HABIL. New catalogued format SN428 added. Added new format SEGYREV1 to read tapes written in SEGY-REV1 (revision 1) format.
MDG_LIBED4100_2008
COR
LIBED
15013
MDG_LIBFDRG4100_1921
COR
LIBFD LIBRG
13707 14074
MDG_LIBFI4100_1876
MIX
LIBRI FI
MDG_LIBGD4100_1913
COR
LIBGD
14470
Avoids a job crash in analysis when two LIBRI GDs are coded with the same number in the same job. Allows LIBRI UM to work correctly with XPS datasets when offset values are in decreasing order. Allows the TN option to work correctly. Corrects to increase the number of CDP that can be coded in a LIBRI WD from 3000 to 9000. Allows the new CGGVeritas logo (parameter CGGVE) to be displayed, replacing the old CGG logo (parameter CGG).
MDG_LIBUM4100_1910
COR
LIBUM
MDG_LIBVI4100_1801 MDG_LIBWD4100_1828
COR COR
LIBVI LIBWD
MDG_LOGO@CGGVERITA S_1847
MIX
PLOTX
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Patch Name
MDG_MQC2V4100_1977
Type
MIX
Modules
MQC2V
SR Numbers
PSHDESCRIPTION
Added new options to output volumes in frequency domain for attributes NRMS, RMS difference and average RMS. New attribute CORR added. Parameter EDIST renamed RMSDIF TV option: OS1 no longer mandatory. Default values of RRMS and PRED modified. New parameter LGR to allow maps to be output in X-Y coordinates instead of CRL-INL. Added new optional parameter XM for defining minimum offset preservation value when applying incidence angle mute.
13803 14434
MDG_MUTAN4100_1976
EVL
MUTAN
MDG_MUTES4100_1872
COR
MUTES
IN option: corrects wrong application of mute at top of the trace. HD option: allows correct application of taper. Corrects to avoid generating spikes and allow correct management of muting. Module ONSET was renamed ONSPI. New parameter for additional white noise: ADN
MDG_NOISE4100_1862
COR
NOISE
14384
MDG_ONSET4100_1711
MIX
ONSET
MDG_OURIM4100_1703
COR
OURIM
13959
Corrects to add an error message when parameter SURVEY is missing. Corrects for wrong output tape structure (history trace block). Allows tapes with multiple files to be read correctly. New module PPDEC: Post stack driven prestack deconvolution.
MDG_OUTBD4100_1893
COR
OUTBD
12523 14019, 14249 14341
MDG_PPDEC4100_1899
NEW
PPDEC
MDG_PRF3D4100_1941
COR
PRF3D
14641, 14674
Add new parameter XFS (prewhitening). Corrects to remove warning messages when processing a large number of lines. Allows correct update of word 51. Added new parameter NOP for handling traces where no operator is defined.
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MDG_PRO2C4100_1859
COR
PRO2C
14027, 14199
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Patch Name
MDG_QCQAD4100_1936
Type
COR
Modules
QCQAD
SR Numbers
14579
PSHDESCRIPTION
Corrects to avoid a job crash when processing lines with more than 5000 shotpoints. Added new optional parameter MARKW to define the trace header word containing the flag for duplicated or non-duplicated data. Corrects for computation errors in standard deviation values. Corrects for wrong results when invalid traces are present in the input gather: invalid traces are set to zero for the computing and in the output. Correct for wrong results when value of word 1 is incorrect. Removes unnecessary printed lines from job listing. Module optimization.
MDG_QCTRL4100_1800
COR
QCTRL
13729
MDG_QCXPS4100_1922
COR
QCXPS
14812
MDG_RAMUR4100B_1999
COR
RAMUR
14472
MDG_RSAMP4100_1996
COR
RSAMP
14442
MDG_RUNET4100_1785 MDG_SATAN4100_1965
COR COR
RUNET SATAN 14002, 14854, 14499
Corrects for wrong results with parameter DBST. Allows the reiteration of REMI picking to work correctly (parameter SB). Added new catalogued formats IO-Image and SEGYREV1 (SEGY revision 1). New parameter LBYT. New coding SEGYREV1 for SEGY-revision 1 format. Modified total capacity of output tapes when UNLIMITD is coded in LIBRI BD: limit changed from 8 to 300 Gbytes. Allows the output buffer to be coded with an explicit name or with ++ characters.
MDG_SEGIN4100_1792
COR
SEGIN
13567 13843
MDG_SEGOU4100_1794
MIX
SEGOU
13647
MDG_SELTR4100_1978
EVL
SELTR
MDG_SHINFLT4100_1739
COR
SHRNK, INFLT
13134
Allows decompression module (INFLT) to work correctly.
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Patch Name
MDG_SINAT4100_1962
Type
COR
Modules
SINAT
SR Numbers
14801
PSHDESCRIPTION
Allows coding of two SINAT modules in the same job. Allows job to run normally when parameters EXPTAP and WORDS are coded. Module optimization (IN option, memory resources, I/O). Corrects for wrong update of output header word 8 when the input traces are not stack traces. New option NOBD allows to analyze a flat file in SEGD or SEGY formats and suggest a minimal coding to the user. New module: end-spread shotpoints to splitspread shotpoints.
MDG_SMMOD4100_1875
COR
SMMOD
14441
MDG_STAPA4100_1895
COR
STAPA
14385
MDG_STGIN4100_1715
COR
NA
MDG_SYMUL4100_1940
NEW
SYMUL
MDG_TDNAT4100_1933
COR
TDNAT
14633
Corrects to avoid job crash with fpe. Added an extension to the efficiency function parameter E. Allows use of horizons to define the processing time window; not compatible with old coding. When the number of traces exceeds the coded YMX value, an explicit error message and recommendation is now displayed. Added new parameter OWT to compute a oneway-time regional static correction. Added parameter ATTR: to select attribute in input scatter dataset. Allows TOPOR to process datasets in Depth. Corrects to force user to code either parameter LGR or DX (cannot be coded together). Corrected 2D option: changed character of first column of output statics file (U instead of G). Modified 3D option: new parameter TOPODIR.
MDG_TDNFK4100_1707
MIX
TDNFK
12343
13763
MDG_TOPOR4100_1949
MIX
TOPOR
12927
12992, 13874 14534, 14537 14558
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Patch Name
MDG_TPXPY4100_1852
Type
NEW
Modules
TPXPY
SR Numbers
PSHDESCRIPTION
New module: 3D Forward and reverse Tau-pxpy decomposition. Change in the header file .header.cst (word 10=0) Corrects error in option TPXPY RV RB (output word 10). This patch must be used with patch MDG_CSTSUBS4100_1843. New module: Auxiliary trace synchronization. Variable initialization (case 2 or more modules per job) New module - Time Variant Automatic Trim Statics This patch must be coded if SMMOD is coded in a job in the 4100 release.
14240
MDG_TPXPY4100_1935
COR
TPXPY
MDG_TRASY4100_1908 MDG_TSFIM4100_1698
NEW COR
TRASY TSFIM
MDG_TVATS4100_1898
NEW
TVATS
MDG_UTLSRME4100_1775
MIX
NA
MDG_VESPA4100_1802
COR
VESPA
Corrects to allow output file to be read normally by interactive application (Velcom). Corrects to allow VORNI option TK to open .DES files normally.
MDG_VORNI4100_1911
COR
VORNI
MDG_VORNI4100_1932
COR
VORNI
14375, 14479
Gives the possibility to open .DES files with TK option Parameter NOINT removed, added new parameter INTER to create radionavigation (RDN) trace. Modification to replace parameter DBXYZ coding by DBWXYZ.
MDG_WILOC4100_1710
MIX
WILOC
MDG_WUNET4100_1716
COR
WUNET
11552
Allows in the final print a trace number greater than 1 million, avoids job crash during postprocessing. Corrects the format of output word 11. Corrects to avoid a job crash when Geocluster modules read large XPS datasets.
MDG_XPS4100_1718
COR
NA
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Patch Name
MDG_XY2XY4100_1991
Type
EVL
Modules
XY2XY
SR Numbers
12542 13681 14409
PSHDESCRIPTION
Allows XY2XY to process Q records. New parameter NADCON for North American datum conversion. Corrects to allow coding several XY2XY modules in the same job. Added new parameter FILIN for input UKOOA file. DTMIP patch for Geocluster 4100. DTMIP replaces DTMIG. Patch for Geocluster 4.1. Must be coded with patch MDG_INOUMIG4100_1798. New production patch for batch PSDM modules (KIMIP, KIMTR, LIBGV, LIBKI, SMOTH, TOPAK, TTRAY, TTVEL, WEIKO). Corrects for wrong results when parameter VDZ is coded. Replaces patch P_SRMIP4100_391. New production patch for TIKIM. HAL environment: HAL is used for the following modules: DTMIP, GTMIP, INVEI, SRMIP, TIKIM,KIMIP.
P_DTMIP4100_315
EVL
DTMIP
P_GTMIP4100_314
EVL
GTMIP
P_PSDM4100E_314
EVL
PSDM modules
P_SRMIP4100_395
MIX
SRMIP
P_TIKIM4100_7203 S_HAL4100_1310
COR COR
TIKIM
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Note on other patches

For more information on patches created for Geocluster 4.1 release that are not included in the Geocluster 5.0 release, refer to the list of patches available from the Geocluster User Support Group.
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Appendix
This appendix includes detailed information on batch module and system software modifications. You will find the following sections:
Batch Module Modifications System Software Modifications
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Batch Module Modifications

You will find below a detailed list of significant modifications (post-release Geocluster 4.1) included in the Geocluster 5.0 release. First column: name of the module Second column: level of the software in which the modification was integrated Third column type of modification: COR = correction (no change in the coding of the module) EVL = evolution (no change in the coding of the module) PAR = new parameter (new option or modification of existing option) NEW = new module. Fourth column: Implies a change in the module parameter coding. Fifth column: Reference of the modification request (SAR or SDR). The table entries in blue font correspond to modifications that may have an impact on the coding of seismic jobs.
Progra m
ADPAM
Level
Mod
Code
SR
MODTXT
4101
COR
NO
SAR 13325MAS
Option FU: corrects to add an appropriate warning message if input data for FU option are not output from PS option. Corrects for wrong computation of the size of the last half-window. Corrects for a job crash in the XPS input option: an appropriate message is now added. Corrects to allow the 2D option to work normally.
ADPAM
4113
COR
NO
SAR 14508CPT
AFACK
4111
COR
NO
SAR 14617LON
AMCOD
4104
COR
NO
SAR 14058IIG
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AMPOF AMPOF
Level
Mod
Code
SR
MODTXT
4101 4108
EVL COR
NO NO
Initialize scratch arrays.^AMPT and AMTT2 arrays. Corrects for a job crash when the first traces are invalidated. SAR 14494MAD Corrects to add X-bit and Y-bit to avoid job crash (looping) in execution when process card XB1 is coded instead of 1B1. SAR 12995TYU Corrects for a job crash when the increment between SP is not equal to 1. Corrects to avoid a job crash when large numbers of SPs are processed. Corrects to allow decimal values (real) to be taken into account New module. Azimuthal amplitude versus angle analysis. Correction for new CGGV logo. SAR 10874IRP Corrects to avoid job crash when processing input files. Corrects to avoid job from hanging on analysis on Linux. For option M: Corrects to obtain proper side label printing in the marine option. Corrects for wrong results when plotting CGM files. New CGGV logo. Corrects to avoid a job crash in case of memory overflow (exceeds 2 Gbytes): an warning message is now displayed in the job listing.
AMPSC
4113
COR
NO
AMPSO
4101
COR
NO
AMPSO
4113
COR
NO
SAR 14464RTG SAR 14561KUA
ANGLE
4101
COR
NO
SAR 13660OSL
AZAVA
4104
NEW
YES
AZIMU BHEAD
4117 4103
PAR COR
YES NO
BHSPL
4103
COR
NO
SAR 10306IRP
BHTVD
4103
COR
NO
SAR 11766IBO SAR 13859CHM
BHTVD BSMAP BSORT
4108 4117 4117
COR PAR COR
NO YES NO
SAR 14416CHM
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CALSC
Level
Mod
Code
SR
MODTXT
4101
COR
NO
SAR 12104IRP
Corrects for job crash on all machines excepting SUN platforms. Corrects wrong results when coding parameters: F, WFOLD, ITNB. Parameters removed: XF, REVOP Module optimization. Corrects for wrong computation of instantaneous phase. Added new optional parameter PI to extend phase computation to [-PI to +PI] (from -PI/2 to +PI/2 by default).
CALSC
4106
EVL
YES
SAR 14193IIG
CALSC COCON
4108 4108
EVL PAR
YES YES
COHAD
4101
COR
NO
SAR 12788RTP
Corrects for wrong results when PLOTX is coded after COHAD. Corrects for a job crash when decoding input XPS datasets. CORRE option CV: corrects for wrong results in updating output header word 6. Corrects to force job to crash in analysis with an appropriate error message when input buffers are not coded.
COMPA
4114
COR
NO
SAR 14362MAS
CORRE
4101
COR
NO
SAR 13674PDO
CORRE
4101
COR
NO
CROSS
4117
COR
NO
SAR15019DMR
Corrects to display an appropriate error message when parameters XMIN, XMAX, YMIN, YMAX are restricted to survey limits. Corrects to allow CTIDE to compute different amplitude values if two shotpoints belonging to two different sail lines have the same SP number. New module: QC input curvatures
CTIDE
4109
COR
NO
SAR 14099MAS
CURQC
4114
NEW
YES
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CVIMU
Level
Mod
Code
SR
MODTXT
4111
EVL
YES
SAR 13190MAS SAR 13904MAS SDR 14342LON
Corrects for wrong results if the input velocity is in 2D domain. New optional parameter XM to define the minimum un-muted offset. Job examples corrected in documentation. Corrects for wrong results in output buffer. Allows appropriate error messages to be displayed in case of coding error. Modifications: - Default iteration sequence changed to SP1, SIS2, CDP3, OFF4. - Offset iteration is now optional. - Operator computation in a selected offset range now possible. - New syntax for coding offset range. Corrects the computation of the output window length: must be equal to length of trace minus length of trace header.
DDMED DEABS
4101 4114
COR COR
NO NO
SAR 12869HOU SAR 14768MAS
DECSC
4101
PAR
YES
SDR 11695HOU SDR 9132CAL SDR 9349MTG
DECSC
4111
COR
NO
DECSC
4113
EVL
YES
SAR 14216MAS
The parameters SPIKE, ZP, BL, BLZP and TRITA are now mutually exclusive. New module: 2D High resolution TauP decomposition.
DECTP
4109
NEW
NO
DECTP DEPTH
4111 4108
EVL COR
NO NO
SDR 11346IRP
Module optimization. Corrects to avoid wrong results with VM and VI options. Complete rewrite of the module to handle problems using interval velocity model sample in time. The coding has totally changed (see documentation).
DEPTV
4101
EVL
YES
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DEPTV
Level
Mod
Code
SR
MODTXT
4102
PAR
NO
Corrects to avoid wrong results with zero samples. Added new parameter WORD to indicate the sorting order of the velocity model. Modifies to allow the conversion of a velocity trace with another one. Corrects for wrong computation results (sample shift). SDR 13751IRP New module: Diffracted multiple attenuation Corrects to avoid job crash when reading large input geofiles. SAR 14676CAL Corrects to avoid a job crash in analysis when loop number coded in column 22: loop number can now be coded starting from column 8. Added new optional parameter NULL that allows replacing outlying samples (sample amplitudes K times larger than the median envelope) by null amplitude, instead of using median value. Corrects to allow large SP gathers to be processed normally. Use the PFL instead of a self calculated FFT SAR 14262MOS DYNQU R: Corrects for unclear error message when computation window parameters (Wa-Wb) are incorrectly coded. Correction of taper application when several windows are defined. Added an index for identifying lines which are split on several parts of the input tapes. LI option: the Job number and Job name are concatenated to the name of output files (LI option)
DEPTV
4104
EVL
YES
DEPTV DIMAT DISLA
4117 4109 4106
COR NEW EVL
NO YES NO
DLOOP
4113
COR
NO
DSPIK
4103
EVL
YES
SDR 12122IRP
DWATT
4111
COR
NO
SAR 14493MAS
DWATT DYNQU
4113 4113
EVL COR
NO NO
EDITE
4113
COR
NO
SAR 14610MTG
EDIUK
4101
EVL
NO
SDR 12909MAS
EDIUK
4103
EVL
NO
H-6
Geocluster 5.0
Release Notes
Progra m
EGRID
Level
Mod
Code
SR
MODTXT
4101
EVL
YES
SDR 12750MAS
Added new parameter MIS for defining missing traces (shotpoints not found in radionavigation data). Removed parameter NOINT and added new parameter INTER (for radionavigation traces). Correction to allow management of abnormal radionavigation traces generated by WILOC. Corrects for wrong print format when OPT1 is coded (print fold coverage on listing).
EGRID
4101
PAR
YES
EGRID
4105
COR
NO
EGRID
4108
COR
NO
SAR 14397MAS
Corrects to allow parameter TESTSP to be coded normally. New module: 2D and 3D land data header updating. Replaces partly ETQ2D and TDETQ.
ETQXY
4106
NEW
YES
EVERY
4101
EVL
YES
SDR 13740LON
ME option: added new parameter NZ to ignore samples with a specified value. Correction to allow EVERY to process traces containing only a single sample. Corrects to prevent a job crash on analysis when the length of the auxiliary trace is not equal to the length of the main input trace. Module optimization for 64-bit machines.
EVERY
4102
COR
NO
SAR 13909LON
EVERY
4103
COR
NO
SAR 13829FPT
EVERY EVERY
4106 4111
EVL PAR
NO YES SDR 14021BPA SAR 14196LON SDR 14227IRP
SDR 14378BPA
EVERY ME: added new parameter RMS to output mean RMS of trace samples instead of SUM. EVERY PO: corrects to force trace evaluation to start from word 65 instead of word 64. EVERY ME: Added new parameters for internal scaling (SCALE) and clipping (CLPMIN, CLPMAX). Corrects the header consistency checking between main and auxiliary inputs for options AD, DI, MU and SU.
CGGVeritas
H-7
H
Progra m
EVERY
Level
Mod
Code
SR
MODTXT
4114
COR
NO
SAR 14458MAS
EVERY EL and IZ: Corrects to avoid a job crash when sampling step is the same as the input trace. Corrects to remove all references to TI by AN: the coding LIBTI was removed and replaced by LIBAN (Effective Anellipticity Library). Corrects the results of FANMO when parameter LMU is coded: results are now closer to those obtained with modules FANMO+MUTES. Corrects to allow FBCOR to process negative primary delays. New module: automatic first break picking. New module: Frequency dependent noise attenuation. Corrects to prevent a job crash when an even number is selected for parameter NC.
FANMO
4101
EVL
YES
SDR 12515IRP
FANMO
4108
COR
NO
SAR 14359CPT SAR 14402MAS
FBCOR
4101
EVL
NO
FBPIK FDNAT FDNAT
4114 4103 4108
NEW NEW COR
YES YES NO
FILTR
4103
COR
NO
SAR 13638MVC
Corrects to allow coding composite filters (BP+Butterworth). Corrects to force the job to crash in analysis when FILTR is applied on data with negative values for word 6. Corrects to allow all parameters coded after LCN to be decoded normally. Module optimization. Corrects application of mute (LMU) in FILTR. Corrects for wrong results in spatial interpolation of random filter when the very first input trace is in between two LCN definitions. Corrects for wrong computation of the first BT filter application window (coded with LFD).
FILTR
4103
COR
NO
SAR 13994HOU
FILTR
4104
COR
NO
SAR 14066TYU
FILTR
4111
COR
NO
SDR 9580CAL SAR 14157IMC SAR 14286HOU SAR 14420LON SDR 14218HOU
FILTR
4113
COR
NO
SAR 9155MAS
H-8
Geocluster 5.0
Release Notes
Progra m
FKFIL
Level
Mod
Code
SR
MODTXT
4101
COR
NO
SAR 12974OSL
PA option: corrects for wrong results when FKFIL is applied on abnormal traces (difficult to detect). Removed obsolete parameter SCM. Corrects results when applying polygonal & elliptical filtering, in particular with large values of NT. Corrects the results when parameters DELTAF & DELTAK are coded. Added new parameter GMTR for handling missing traces. New module: Gather flattening. Added new parameters LOPX, LOPY and LOPZ as an alternative coding to DX, DY and DZ.
FKFIL
4108
EVL
YES
FKFIL
4113
EVL
NO
FLATN FSFIL
4111 4114
NEW PAR
YES YES
FXMIG
4103
COR
NO
SAR 13291IFP
Corrects for wrong results when parameter FMAX is coded with large values. Before call to AXCARD CARD string is initialized with blank. Corrects for wrong results when missing values are processed. Modification of error messages which were unclear. Corrects the format of the header word defined by parameter WORD (now written in floating point format).
FXYIN
4113
EVL
NO
SAR 14737MAS
GAINA
4113
EVL
NO
SAR 14299MAS
GAINA GAINB
4113 4102
COR COR
NO NO
SAR 14080IRD
GSFIL
4103
PAR
YES
SDR 12951IIG
Added new parameters XINC and YINC to define the increment of input WORDX and WORDY. Corrects to avoid a job crash in analysis when two GSFIL modules are coded in the same job. Module optimization
GSFIL
4114
COR
NO
SAR 14747MAS
GSREG
4101
COR
NO
CGGVeritas
H-9
H
Progra m
HABIL
Level
Mod
Code
SR
MODTXT
4109
COR
YES
Option MD: allows HABIL to work correctly when the model file contains more then 3 traces. Added new parameter NT added to define the number of traces in the model file. SAR 14673KUA SAR 12502MAS Avoids a job crash Crash with option WT. Corrects to allow the output statics file to be written normally. Added warning message in job listing when the SP/GP limits are incorrect. Modification to allow coordinates to be read and written in an XPS database instead of LIBRI XY. Added new option RF to HDBOX. New module to filter dense attribute fields. SAR 13556MAS Corrects to prevent a job crash in analysis when using LFD (SAR 13556). Modification allows memory size for jobs to be defined by environmental variable MEMSIZE rather then NORMSIZE. Option RW: Wavelength filtering now works correctly. The consistency of LFD and LVI in the job is now checked. New official version of HDPIC production patch (HDPIC 4). Added two new options to HEDFI module: GL and ZS New module: High fidelity NMO application New module: High fidelity statics application SAR 14543IIG Corrects to avoid a job crash in analysis when parameter RL is coded.
HABIL HACOR
4113 4101
COR COR
NO NO
HACOR
4103
EVL
YES
SDR 13722BEI
HDBOX HDFIL HDPIC
4110 4111 4101
EVL NEW COR
YES YES NO
HDPIC
4110
EVL
YES
HEDFI HFNMO HFSTA HFSTA
4108 4110 4109 4110
EVL NEW NEW COR
YES YES YES NO
H-10
Geocluster 5.0
Release Notes
Progra m
HISTA HISTA
Level
Mod
Code
SR
MODTXT
4102 4103
COR COR
NO NO SAR 13538IIG
Module optimization HISTA LA: corrects to prevent HISTA from modifying the first trace sample on input. Corrects to prevent HISTA from modifying the samples of invalidated traces. Module optimization. SAR 14208 SAR 14368, SAR 14604, SAR 14614, SAR 14646, Corrects for wrong output results after coding IFTHN + ENDIF. Module optimization.
HISTA
4113
COR
NO
SAR 14668OSL
IFTHN IFTHN
4106 4114
COR COR
NO NO
INFLT INMIG
4104 4102
NEW EVL
YES YES
New module: Inflate compressed seismic data. Added new parameters (flags) RSMIP and NOPAD. Added new grid definition parameters. Option F: corrects for wrong results when parameters DISK and DISKMAX are coded. SAR 14728MTG SAR 14211CAL SAR 14255MAS Module optimization. Corrects to allow selection in LIBRI TR to be properly applied by INMRG. Prevents a job crash in analysis when no parameter after column 13 in the first line of LIBRI TR is coded. Added new parameter MARK to identify the interpolated traces generated by INPOL by updating a user selected header word with value 9999. Corrects for wrong results when INPTR (without HISTORY) is followed by an OUTBD in the same job: the output tape can now be read normally.
INMIG
4105
COR
NO
INMIG INMRG
4114 4106
COR COR
NO NO
INPOL
4113
EVL
YES
SDR 14439MAS
INPTR
4103
COR
NO
CGGVeritas
H-11
H
Progra m
INPTR
Level
Mod
Code
SR
MODTXT
4111
COR
NO
SAR 14401MAS
Corrects to allow clear message to be printed when the job crashes in execution due to incorrect SI value coded (less than 1 msec). Corrects for wrong Y-flag management when input traces are sorted in decreasing order. Allows INPTR to read several files of the same input tape which were generated with parameter EOF of module OUTBD. New module: Input wave equation 3D data (input to SRMIP).
INPTR
4113
COR
NO
SAR 14317IIG
INPTR
4113
COR
NO
SAR 14341MAS
INWET
4109
NEW
YES
KIDMO
4101
COR
NO
SAR 13771BPA
Corrects for wrong results in the reverse DMO option (parameter RVDMO). Prevents KIDMO from generating spikes when parameter LVI is coded. Corrects to avoid a job crash when area defined by parameters CDP/LINE does not match with input data. Removed parameter ONDISK. Added new options CA (Cascade) and ML (Multiple models). The Models are now located in an auxiliary buffer and not concatenated to the seismic trace.
KIDMO
4102
COR
NO
SAR 13781SAK
KIDMO
4108
COR
NO
KIDMO LASUB
4108 4102
PAR EVL
YES YES
LASUB
4106
COR
NO
SAR 14105MAS
Option CA: allows the mute to be correctly applied on the computed model All references to TI were replaced by AN. LAYES can read all datasets via XPS. Removed all references to libraries: LAYES only supports XPS datasets.
LAYES
4108
PAR
YES
SDR 12513IRP
LAYES
4114
EVL
YES
H-12
Geocluster 5.0
Release Notes
Progra m
LEMUR
Level
Mod
Code
SR
MODTXT
4108
COR
NO
Corrects to avoid module to loop on the same time window. SAR 14445MAS Added a new check of the output tape: concatenation of PREFIX and tape file number must be less than 6 digits. Corrects to allow the job to crash in analysis when the attributes of the XPS dataset are different from the existing version. Corrects to force job to abort in analysis if XPS attribute name is greater than 31 characters. Corrects to avoid a job crash in analysis when a large LIBRI ED is coded. Corrects for wrong values when LIBRI FD reads an XPS dataset. Corrects for wrong results with 3D interpolation. Corrects for wrong results when the WB values are a multiple of the input record length. SAR 14591IIG Corrects results when reading XPS datasets. In SEGD: corrects to allow LIBRI FI to process datasets with large extended file headers. In SEGY: the coding IEEE is now saved in FOR5 instead of FOR9. The delay in element 36 of SEGY trace is transferred in bits 4-32 of word 16 (instead of bits 4-19). Added new catalogued format SEGYREV1 to read tapes in SEGY-REV1 format. SAR 14245BEI Corrects to allow high values for NT and RL to be coded.
LIBBD
4111
EVL
NO
LIBDB
4114
COR
NO
SAR 12383MAS SDR 13798IIG SAR 14701MAS
LIBED
4108
COR
NO
SAR 14456MAS
LIBFD
4101
COR
NO
SAR 13707HOU
LIBFD LIBFD
4102 4110
COR COR
NO NO
SAR 12736IIG
LIBFD LIBFI
4111 4101
EVL EVL
NO NO
LIBFI
4102
COR
NO
LIBFI
4106
NEW
YES
LIBFK
4113
COR
NO
CGGVeritas
H-13
H
Progra m
LIBFO
Level
Mod
Code
SR
MODTXT
4106
EVL
NO
SEGY: If parameter SEGYREV1 is coded when processing PSTM-Phase 3 datasets, the element HTR35 is now transferred from CGG header word 45. SAR 14470LON Corrects to force the job to crash in analysis when two LIBRI GDs are coded with the same number in the same job. New version of production patch for LIBRI GV. As in LIBBD and in LIBTR, the segmentation is no longer available. If a segmented device is coded, the job now aborts in analysis with an explicit message. Corrects to allow LIBRI RG to work with Xps datasets. SAR 14649SMR Corrects to allow LIBRI SG to accept brackets for coding the CREW number (as in LIBRI BD). Corrects for wrong results when parameter DBST is coded and when there are more than 2 columns in the XPS Dataset. SAR 14482MAS SAR 13739BPA SDR 13688LON Module optimization. Corrects to increase the number of tape selection ranges allowed in LIBRI TR from 100 to 1000. If PREFIX is coded in LIBRI TR, the parameter UPDTAPE cannot be coded in INMRG and INPTR. Added a new check of the input tape: concatenation of PREFIX and tape file number must be defined on less than 6 digits. Modification to allow the ANSI label (2 records of 80 bytes + EOF) in a tape image on the disk to be automatically detected and skipped. Corrects to allow the use of XPS muting datasets.
LIBGD
4110
COR
NO
LIBGV LIBOU
4102 4104
NEW EVL
YES NO
LIBRG
4103
EVL
YES
LIBSG
4113
EVL
YES
LIBST
4101
EVL
NO
LIBST LIBTR
4113 4101
COR COR
NO NO
LIBTR
4113
EVL
NO
SAR 14444MAS
LIBTR
4113
EVL
NO
SDR 14491MAS
LIBUM
4110
COR
NO
H-14
Geocluster 5.0
Release Notes
Progra m
LIBVI LIBVI
Level
Mod
Code
SR
MODTXT
4101 4103
COR EVL
NO YES SDR 13906IIG
Allows the TN option to work correctly. Corrects to force the job to crash in analysis when an XPS velocity dataset contains a time value equal to zero. Increase the maximum number of TV pairs per velocity function from 500 to 1000. Corrects to force the job to crash when two LIBVIs are coded with the same number or when the time number 99999 is not present at the final velocity of a velocity function. Mollification to force the program to check if time number 9999 is present. SAR 14298OSL In 3D: Increases the number of CDPs that can be coded by three (no longer limited to 3000). Added new parameter DBHZ to allow reading 2D horizons from XPS. Corrects to allow LISTE to process a trace containing only one sample. Added new parameter DBHZ to allow reading 3D horizons from XPS. Added new parameter LINEa=c, defining the number of the horizon library corresponding to line c which defines the horizon. Corrects to remove an error message (Merge Error) even if job is correct. Modification to force the job to use the X-flag only from the main input buffer and ignore that of the auxiliary buffer.
LIBVI
4105
EVL
NO
SAR 14194MAS
LIBVI
4108
EVL
NO
LIBVI
4111
COR
NO
LIBWD
4108
EVL
NO
LISTA
4103
EVL
YES
SDR 13719LON
LISTE
4102
COR
NO
SAR 13929LON
LISTS
4101
EVL
YES
SDR 13719LON
MERGE
4113
EVL
NO
SAR 14308MAS
MERGE
4114
COR
NO
SDR 14609CAL
CGGVeritas
H-15
H
Progra m
MQC2V
Level
Mod
Code
SR
MODTXT
4101
EVL
YES
Added new option TV (attribute volumes). New parameters EMIN, EMAX,INVAL for time shift computation. Added new attribute CORR. Parameter EDIST renamed RMSDIF. Added optional parameter XM defining the minimum offset preservation when applying incidence angle mute. SAR 13803MAS Option IN: corrects application of taper (no longer applied from WORD6). Option HD: Corrects the number of terms in the taper to fit to the LIBRI MU definition of taper length. Option HD: Corrects to avoid a job crash if coded taper is different from word7 value In option HD, taper is applied even if its value is different from word 7. Module optimization. One dimension interbed multiple modelling. Module optimization. SDR 14714IIG The ONSET module was renamed ONSPI. Module optimization for SUN platforms. Modification to allow the created LIBRI ST to be printed in the output job listing. Corrects to avoid a job analysis error when two or more OUMIG are coded in the same job. Added new parameter RSMIP for processing files created by RSMIP.
MQC2V
4109
COR
YES
MUTAN
4108
PAR
YES
MUTES
4101
COR
NO
MUTES
4113
COR
NO
SAR 14434OSL SAR 14627MAS
MUTES
4114
COR
NO
SAR 14868MAS
NOISE ODIMM ONSET ONSPI OPIXY OPSAT
4108 4108 4105 4113 4102 4101
COR NEW COR NEW COR EVL
NO YES NO YES NO NO
SAR 14384MAS
OUMIG
4101
COR
NO
OUMIG
4102
EVL
YES
H-16
Geocluster 5.0
Release Notes
Progra m
OUMIG
Level
Mod
Code
SR
MODTXT
4104
EVL
YES
Removed parameters DMF, NODMF and FAST. Added new parameter PERC. SDR 13563 In order to be compatible with OUTBD, the sample interval is now recorded in microseconds in trace header 9. Corrects to avoid a job crash in execution (postprocessing) with message "address not mapped". Corrects to allow the number of selected traces, for each tape-group selected, to be printed at the end of the job listing. Modification to allow the user to send several jobs to fill-in one database using parameter UPDATE=YES. SAR 13959HOU Corrects to force the job to crash in analysis when mandatory parameters are missing. Corrects to display an explicit error message when the mandatory parameter LBD is missing. Modifies the order in which the historical traces are sorted (now chronological). Corrects the format of output tapes when OUTBD writes on several tapes (history block now present on all tapes). Corrects for wrong update of first summary block of history trace. SAR 14519MAS Corrects the information printed in the job listing when job OUTBD crashes after partial execution. Corrects to avoid a job crash when the value of header word 16 is too large. Prevents the S-bit from being set on output traces.
OUMRG
4101
EVL
NO
OUMRG
4103
COR
NO
SAR 14001IIG
OUMRG
4105
COR
NO
SAR 14160MAS
OURIM
4101
EVL
NO
OURIM
4102
COR
NO
OUTBD
4101
COR
NO
SAR 13725ACL
OUTBD
4102
COR
NO
SAR 12523MAS
OUTBD
4103
COR
NO
SAR 14019IIG
OUTBD
4105
COR
NO
OUTBD
4113
EVL
NO
OUTGR
4114
COR
NO
OUTST
4114
COR
NO
CGGVeritas
H-17
H
Progra m
OUWET PLOTX
Level
Mod
Code
SR
MODTXT
4109 4101
NEW EVL
YES YES
New module: Output wave equation 3D data. New CGM and rasterized logo: BGP, KEPCO, LUKSA, NIOCN, MOL, New CGM and rasterized logo: APACHE, SLGRI, New CGM and rasterized logo: COSAIL, PETROCHIN, SINOGEO New CGM and rasterized logo: ANH, BRGMG, CGGVE, GEOLDE, GEOLDR, SNG, New CGM and rasterized logo: AGOCO, ROSNE, New CGM and rasterized logo: PERTA,
4105 4106
4108
4109 4111
PPDEC
4109
NEW
YES
New module: Post-stack driven pre-stack deconvolution. Corrects for wrong header word interpolation and data results. Modification of the parameter value for INTERY. Corrects the update the word 51 after step 5. Added new logical parameter NOP that stops the program when no operator is available for a given trace or gather. By default, trace is invalidated. SAR 14600BEI Corrects to force the job to stop before normal end if the datasets read from auxiliary buffers do not have the same trace lengths. New module: Calibration of multi-component sensors SAR 14669MAS Corrects to force the job to crash in analysis if PROCS is not coded when at least one loop is required. Module optimization.
PRF3D
4110
COR
YES
PRO2C
4108
EVL
NO
PRO2C
4111
EVL
NO
PRO4C PROCS
4106 4112
NEW COR
YES NO
PROT2
4103
EVL
NO
H-18
Geocluster 5.0
Release Notes
Progra m
QCAMP QCDBU
Level
Mod
Code
SR
MODTXT
4113 4114
COR EVL
NO YES
SAR 14351IIG SAR 14578LAN SAR 14699MTG
Corrects for wrong update of output words 1 and 10. Corrects to allow coding a maximum of 55 attributes in LIBRI DB (instead of 30). A clear error message is now written in the job listing when wrong key is defined for the XPS version. Modification to increase from 5000 to 15000 the maximum number of shotpoints allowed. Added new parameter DBANY to output the attributes in an Xps database instead of a file. Added new optional parameter MARKW to identify the type of anomaly found on a trace (10 for notduplicated data, 11 for duplicated). Improves the control of duplicated shotpoints. Corrects the calculation of misplaced trace gathers. New module, replaces QCDBU and LIBRI DB. Modification to allow program to use linear regression with weights derived from the cross-correlation amplitude spectrum for fitting. The original method is available by coding ROBFIT. Removes PRINT instructions (on standard output) and replaces them by WRITE. Corrects for wrong window computation on UNIX platforms. Added conditions on the option selection: first option: only MA and NA are available, second option: PA and blank. Modification to check if the number of the loop is valid in the job.
QCQAD
4111
EVL
NO
SAR 14579MAR
QCSNO
4103
EVL
YES
SDR 11675IRP
QCTRL
4102
COR
YES
SDR 13729MAS
QCTRL QCTRL QCXPS QQUBE
4109 4109 4105 4101
COR COR NEW EVL
NO NO YES NO
SAR 13816MAS SAR 13816MAS SDR 12881IIG
RAMUR
4101
COR
NO
RAMUR
4101
COR
NO
RAMUR
4108
COR
YES
CGGVeritas
H-19
H
Progra m
RAMUR
Level
Mod
Code
SR
MODTXT
4109
EVL
NO
SAR 14472
Modification to force the invalidated traces to be set to zero for the computing and in the output. Corrects to force job to crash in execution when processing negative delay values. New module: 2D regularization. New module: One pass 3D regularization.
REFOR
4113
COR
NO
SAR 14640MAS
REG2D REG3D REPIT RSAMP
4113 4113 4101 4110
NEW NEW COR COR
YES YES NO NO SAR 12988HOU SAR 14442MAS
Corrects to allow saving of files on remote host. Corrects for wrong results in trace samples when word1 has an incoherent value (with respect to SI). Corrects to allow resampling rates to be defined with an accuracy of one microsecond. Corrects for wrong Y-bit management when SELEC instructions are coded in RUNET.
RSAMP
4113
EVL
NO
SAR 13808KUA SAR 14542KUA
RUNET
4113
COR
NO
SATAN
4103
COR
NO
SAR 14002IIG
Corrects to prevent a job crash in execution when parameter DBST is coded. Modification to allow output statics and Calcomp files to be generated correctly. Corrects to allow the reiteration of REMI picking to work correctly. The parameters SPIKE, ZP, BL, BLZP are now mutually exclusive, as indicated in the user manual. MF option: corrects the computation of the window length (equal to the length of trace minus length of trace header).l
SATAN
4114
COR
NO
SAR 14854MAS
SATANP M1 SCEOP
4113
COR
NO
SAR 14499BEI
4113
EVL
NO
SAR 14215MAS
SCEOP
4113
COR
NO
SDICO
4113
EVL
NO
SAR 14498MAS
Corrects to prevent SDICO from invalidating traces when amplitude is very small.
H-20
Geocluster 5.0
Release Notes
Progra m
SEGIN
Level
Mod
Code
SR
MODTXT
4101
EVL
YES
SDR 13567VIE
Added new parameter in LIBRI FI for reading catalogued format IO-Image. SEGY: Modification to allow SEGIN to automatically compute exact input trace length (if traces are not blocked and LBYT not coded) using parameters SI, RL and FOR. Corrects for wrong results with STG2 files in SEGY format.
SEGIN
4104
COR
NO
SEGIN
4105
COR
NO
SEGIN
4113
COR
NO
SAR 14471MAR
Corrects to allow the tape number to be defined with numbers greater than 9000 (no longer limited to 8999). A new mnemonic coding was added for tapes recorded with Sercel SN428. When using a device with very large output capacity (LTO or 3592), the number of blocks allowed on this device is computed in analysis in the same way as in execution, that is, with rounding up to a multiple of 4096. (No SAR issued) Corrects to prevent computation error in the conversion from IEEE floating point to 8-bits integer formats (rounding error).
SEGIN
4113
COR
NO
SAR 14510MAS SDR 14390BEI
SEGOU
4101
EVL
NO
SEGOU
4103
COR
NO
SEGOU
4105
PAR
YES
SDR 13647MAS
Added new parameter SEGYREV1 to allow SEGOU to write a SEGY tape or file with requirements specific to SEGY-REV1 format. Modified total capacity of output tapes when UNLIMITD is coded in LIBRI BD: limit changed form 8 to 300 Gbytes.
SEGOU
4106
EVL
YES
SEGOU
4113
EVL
NO
SAR 14449MTG
Corrects the output format of tapes written with 3592 tape drivers (500 Gbytes) when trace size is near 4 Kbytes.
CGGVeritas
H-21
H
Progra m
SELTR
Level
Mod
Code
SR
MODTXT
4104
EVL
NO
Allows the output buffer to be coded with an explicit name or with ++ characters. SAR 13134APG SAR 14801HOU New module: Trace group compression. Corrects to allow coding two SINAT modules in the same job. New module: 2D prestack multiples modelling program. SAR 14441MTG Module optimization (IN option, memory resources, I/O). Modification to allow interpolation option (parameter INTER) to work correctly. Added a new test on parameters TAPER and ADD: ADD must be greater or equal to TAPER, when TAPER is coded. SDR 13942IIG Added new parameter UDFILE to allow saving files on remote host. Added new parameter UDFILE to allow reading files on remote host. Corrects to avoid a job crash when the difference between XMIN and XMAX values is too large. Corrects for wrong results when parameter EFFIC is coded. New Module: wave equation prestack depth migration angle gathers. New module: wave equation depth migration (integrated production patch of parallel module SRMIP)
SHRNK SINAT
4105 4114
NEW EVL
YES NO
SMMOD
4105
NEW
YES
SMMOD
4108
COR
NO
SPARN
4109
COR
NO
SPASM
4108
PAR
NO
SPLIT
4103
EVL
NO
SPLOT
4103
EVL
YES
SDR 13943IIG
SPLTD
4113
COR
NO
SAR 13667MAS
SPLTD
4114
COR
NO
SAR 14656OSL
SRANG
4102
NEW
YES
SRMIP
4104
NEW
YES
H-22
Geocluster 5.0
Release Notes
Progra m
SRMIP
Level
Mod
Code
SR
MODTXT
4106
EVL
YES
Corrects for computation error when reading the sail line number. Added new mandatory parameter WSAIL. Module optimization. SAR 12911HOU Corrects to prevent a job crash when trace length is coded in INPTR and weighting parameter N is coded. Corrects to avoid a job crash when there is a taper value coded in word 7. Corrects the computation of output word 8 when input data is not stack data and word 8 not equal to 1. Added new parameter NOBD that allows SEGIN to analyze a flat file in SEGY or SEGD format and suggest a minimal coding to the user. New module: end-spread SP to split-spread SP. SAR 12879LAN Corrects the update of words 41 and 42 when AZY=AZX-90 in LIBRI GR. Corrects to replace the error message ERROR IN SOURCE OR RECEIVER...with an explicit message. Corrects to avoid wrong results when the pi (efficiency function) is not defined up to the end of the trace. Function is now extended (by default) to the entire trace. Corrects to avoid a job crash in execution with FPE error message. When the number of input traces exceeds the coded YMX value, an explicit error message and recommendation is now displayed.
SRMIP STACK
4114 4101
EVL COR
NO NO
STACK
4101
COR
NO
SAR 13690HOU
STAPA
4110
COR
NO
SAR 14385MAS
STGIN
4102
EVL
YES
SYMUL TDETQ
4108 4102
NEW COR
YES NO
TDLWS
4105
COR
NO
SAR 14143MAS
TDNAT
4101
COR
NO
SAR 7153MAS
TDNAT
4113
COR
NO
SAR 14518GES
TDNFK
4101
COR
NO
SAR 13763NAC
CGGVeritas
H-23
H
Progra m
TDNFK
Level
Mod
Code
SR
MODTXT
4102
EVL
YES
SDR 12343PDO
Allows use of horizons to define and guide the processing time window. Allows parameter TAPI to be taken into account correctly. Corrects to force the job to crash in analysis instead of execution when parameter BQC is coded and postprocessing loop is missing in the job. Corrects results when parameter options QC1 and QC2 are coded. Added a check on transformed coordinates.
TDNFK
4108
COR
NO
SAR 14363MAS
TDNFK
4114
EVL
NO
SAR 14751MAS
TDNFK
4114
EVL
NO
TDNWD
4102
COR
NO
SAR 13931MAS
Corrects to avoid a job crash when parameter DEBUG is coded. Corrects to avoid a job crash in analysis when parameter DEBUG0 is coded. Allows TDPIK to save files on remote host. Corrects to prevent a job crash in analysis if input data and LCN filter do not have the same sample rate (SI). Corrects to print an explicit error message when the value coded for parameter NPMR is greater than a certain value (the value [2NPMR+NPM ]/NPM +1 should be smaller than 20). In this case, the error message gives the maximum NPMR possible. Added two new parameters : OWT: to compute a one-way time regional static correction (instead of a default two-way time). ATTR: to select an attribute in the input dataset (by code name or by attribute name). Added new Depth option for subsequent use of TOPAK. Removed parameters NRCV and NPT. All input/output datasets can be XPS datasets.
TDNWD
4117
COR
NO
SAR 15065MAR
TDPIK TDSAT
4102 4102
COR COR
NO NO
SAR 12819HOU SAR 13814NAC
TDSAT
4111
COR
NO
SAR 14626MAS
TOPOR
4101
EVL
NO
SDR 12927MAS
TOPOR
4109
EVL
YES
SAR 12992MAS SAR 13874MAS SAR 14121BRC
H-24
Geocluster 5.0
Release Notes
Progra m
TOPOR
Level
Mod
Code
SR
MODTXT
4111
EVL
YES
SAR 14534MTG SAR 14537MTG SDR 14558MAS
2D option: Forces the user to code either LGR or DX. Corrects the format of the output file. 3D option: Added new parameter TOPODIR to define directory in which the output files are saved. New version of TIKIM corresponds to production patch MDG_TIKIM4100_7203. New module: 3D Forward and Reverse tau-px-py decomposition. RB (second) option: Allows the output header word 10 to be correctly updated in RV (first) option. Modification in order to improve the listing (traceback)
TIKIM
4117
EVL
YES
TPXPY
4108
NEW
YES
TPXPY
4111
COR
NO
TRACEBAC TRASY TRVEL TRVEL
4112
4110 4101 4101
NEW COR COR
YES NO NO SAR 12813NAC SDR 13685IRP
New module: Auxiliary trace synchronization. ^The function XCSTOFF for flag X was added. Added new parameters REP0 and REPN to replace anomalous interval velocities and avoid module crash in case of anomalous VINT. Modifies the format of the output velocity: the first time of the output velocity function is now to the sample rate (SI). Option LT: Corrects for wrong update of output word 3 of a generated trace. Option LT: Corrects for wrong results when one inline is selected in parameter field LINE. The two following codings are accepted: LINE=(10),CDP=(200-1000,I200) and LINE=(1010), CDP=(200-1000,I200) Allows TRVEL to write LSH libraries or generate cst files.
TRVEL
4102
COR
NO
SAR 13713HOU
TRVEL
4103
COR
NO
SAR 11752MAS
TRVEL
4105
EVL
NO
SAR 14167MAS
TRVEL
4113
COR
NO
SAR 14406LON
CGGVeritas
H-25
H
Progra m
TVATS
Level
Mod
Code
SR
MODTXT
4109
NEW
YES
New module: time variant automatic trim statics for 2D and 3D. SAR 13326FPT Corrects the output results (interpolation of attenuation curve) when parameter FREQAT is coded. Corrects the format of the output file generated by VESPA: this file can be read normally by interactive application. Corrects to avoid a job crash (FPE) in VESPA. Option CV: Changes the status of parameter LVI: no longer mandatory. Forces the job to crash in analysis if the last CDP of the velocity library is smaller than the last CDP defined in VESPA. New CGGVeritas logo. SAR 14375CHM Option TK: corrects to avoid a job crash with error message: "Address not mapped". MOdule optimization. Module optimization. New module: Water statics application. New module: Water statics computation. Parameter NOINT removed. Added new parameter INTER to create radionavigation traces. The coding of parameter DBXYZ changed to DBWXYZ. Flag abnormal traces with dx=dy=z=9999999. Corrects to allow the azimuth value to be updated in word 8.
TVDEF
4101
COR
NO
VESPA
4106
COR
NO
SAR 14240HOU
VESPA VESPA
4111 4113
COR COR
NO NO
SAR 14426MAS SAR 8734MAS
VESPA
4114
COR
NO
SAR 14657MAS
VLKRO VORNI
4117 4108
EVL COR
YES NO
VORNI VSCAN WASAP WASTA WILOC
4110 4113 4109 4109 4101
COR EVL NEW NEW EVL
NO NO YES YES YES
SAR 14375CHM
WILOC
4103
COR
NO
H-26
H
Geocluster 5.0 Batch Module Modifications
Progra m
WILOC
Level
Mod
Code
SR
MODTXT
4113
COR
NO
SAR 14295MAS
Modifies the value of the flag updated in word 7 when parameter INTER is not coded: this value is now equal to 99998. Corrects to allow trace numbers greater than 1 million to be printed in the job listing.
WUNET
4101
COR
NO
WUNET
4102
COR
NO
SAR 11552IRP
Corrects the value of word 11 (bits 21 to 32) when IEEE format is requested; avoids problems with standalone applications. Corrects to avoid a job crash in analysis with a correct coding. Removed reference to old CGG logo.
WVEST
4104
COR
NO
SAR 13902HOU
WXSTA XRAFO
4117 4113
EVL COR
YES NO SAR 14367PDO
Corrects for wrong results when XRAFO Fourier analysis and synthesis are made successively in the same job: the resulting trace no longer needs to be resampled and amplitudes are correct. Added new parameter NADCON for the North American datum conversion. Corrects to allow XY2XY to take into account Q records from UKOOA format files. Corrects to avoid duplicating SP lines in output UKOOA format files, on SUN platforms.
XY2XY
4101
EVL
YES
SDR 12542IIG SDR 13681HOU
XY2XY
4102
COR
NO
XY2XY
4108
COR
NO
SAR 14409MAR
Allows the coding of several XY2XY modules in the same job. To add a new parameter FILIN=name where ~name~ is the full name of the input UKOOA file, 80 characters maximum. This parameter can be used as an alternative for both the parameters PFUK=name and IDUK=ident. The S bit is no longer set on the output traces.
XY2XY
4113
PAR AM
YES
SDR 14503MAS
YDRIV
4114
COR
NO
CGGVeritas
H-27
H
Release Notes System Software Modifications
System Software Modifications

You will find below a table indicating the details of system software modifications. First column: name of the system program Second column: level of the software in which the modification was integrated Third column type of modification: COR = correction (no change in the coding) EVL = evolution (no change in the coding) PAR = new parameter (new option or modification of existing option) Fourth column: Reference of the modification request (SAR or SDR).
Program Level carving 4111
Mod EVL
Code
SR
Short description Added new option to allow main input to identify input and output data.
crv3d
4114
COR
NO
SAR 12989HOU
Corrects the application of taper between processed and unprocessed data (see FXYNA, PRF3D, MISTR, and so on). Corrects the computation of the memory required when processing files of sizes greater than 2 Gb. New modules INWET and OUWET, replace INMIG/OUMIG modules. Allows the coding a decimal value for parameters DZ, ZSTART and ZSTOP.
discf
4117
COR
NO
inouwet
4109 NEW YES
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Geocluster 5.

Overview and System Aspects

Modules Planned for Replacement in next Release . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-35

Overview and System Aspects

Contents of this Version

Related Software Products

GeOlympus: the statics workstation

Supported Hardware and Operating Systems

Software for parallelized applications

Third Party Software

Some interactive applications use libraries from INT.

Operating Environment and Site Administration

Management of large file systems

Compatibility with previous versions of Geocluster

Task Management (Job Manager)

lreq lsub SAR 14279

SAR 12924 SAR 13915

stad, sreq tplot

SAR 12982 SAR 13850

xanv, xmonitor, xopreq Gvrstop

Interactive Documentation XDoc

Printable Documentation Directory

Geocluster Users Documentation

Geocluster Administrators Documentation

Geocluster Programmers Documentation

Geocluster Interactive Software Users Documentation

Documentation of Related Software

Title of document VelPicker 1.2 - User Manual

Geodesk replaces other production tools such as Geowork and Geotapes.

For more information, refer to the Geodesk Users Guide.

Summary of Geodesk modifications

SAR 10585 SAR 10211

SDR 12224 SDR 10722

SDR 12229 SDR 10975

SAR 11615 3.5.1 SAR 9627

SDR 11606 SAR 12276 SAR 12277

Gem-based application launch scripts

Auxiliary Data Management (XPS)

Compatibility with Other Software

XPS Server (Xps0821)

Compatibility with the Prior XPS Server Releases

XPS Server Installation

XPS Interactive Application (version 2.4.4)

The 2.4.4 XPS Browser

SR SDR 13002 SAR 13003 SDR 13156

2.3.1 SDR 13406

SAR 13478 SDR 14224

Seismic Data Management

SAR 12617 SDR 12815

SDR 14422 SDR 14636

Seismic Data Server (SDS)

CGM Plotting Package

Coding change for Geocluster plotting modules

New Batch Modules and Major Updates

Shrinkage (compression) of seismic data

Diffracted multiple attenuation

One-D internal multiple modelling

2D prestack surface related multiple modelling

One pass 3D data regularization

End-spread to split-spread shotpoints

High density filtering

High density residual picking

RMO corrections using HD parameter fields