Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Conoco and its partners BP and Mobil, for agreeing to release the data to SEP. In particular, we would like to thank Doug Hanson of Conoco for giving us the opportunity to test our method on such an interesting data set, and for his successful efforts to actually send the data to us.

We would like to thank Silicon Graphics for loaning a 16-processors Power Challenge to SEP that has been the main computational platform for our tests.

The research presented in this paper was partially funded by the ACTI project # 4731U0015-3Q.