GX Technology Strengthens Oil and Gas Exploration Efforts with Linux NetworX 
Cluster System
First Dual AMD Athlon™ MP Processor-Based Linux Cluster System

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, Aug. 15, 2001 - Linux NetworX, a provider of powerful
and 
easy-to-manage cluster computing solutions, announced today that seismic
imaging 
solutions company GX Technology has purchased an 84-processor Evolocity™
computer 
cluster to be used in its oil and gas exploration
efforts. This is the third cluster computer system provided to GX Technology 
by Linux NetworX. 

Linux clustering, a method of linking multiple computers together to form a
unified 
and more powerful system, is being increasingly adopted by the oil and gas
exploration 
industry as a stable and powerful high performance computing platform.
Companies 
like GX Technology use Linux NetworX clusters to process extremely complex
calculations 
in efforts to help their customers find and produce petroleum. 

"This is the first dual AMD Athlon MP processor-based Linux cluster system,
and 
we are ecstatic that GX has chosen an AMD Athlon processor-based cluster from 
Linux NetworX," said Lee Little, AMD's (NYSE: AMD) director of field
marketing 
for the Americas. "The AMD Athlon MP processor delivers
outstanding performance for software applications that help the research
efforts 
of the oil and gas industry." 

"The first Linux NetworX cluster we purchased allowed us to process seismic
data 
at a much faster rate than our previous non Linux-based clusters. We
anticipate 
similar results with this next system," said Tony Sabatino, vice president
Houston 
Service Center for GX Technology. GX Technology boasts a Linux cluster of
more 
than 400 processors. "Cluster management is a big concern to us, and is a big 
part of why we selected the Linux NetworX solution. We need to focus our
resources 
on processing seismic data, not cluster administration. The technical
expertise 
of Linux NetworX, combined with its ClusterWorX® management software, allow
GX 
to better focus on our core competencies instead of system maintenance." 

Linux NetworX optimized the Evolocity cluster to work with GX Technology's
seismic 
imaging applications to perform processes such as wave equation and Kirchhoff 
pre-stack depth migration and prestack time migration. The 42-node Evolocity 
system includes 84 1.2 GHz AMD Athlon™ MP processors, with each node
containing 
1.5 GB of memory, and two 10/100 Ethernet networks for redundancy. GX
Technology 
also utilizes the Linux NetworX ClusterWorX management software tools, and
signed 
an on-going service agreement to ensure system stability. 

"Organizations in the oil and gas industry typically have the resources to
manage 
and maintain Linux cluster systems, but today these same organizations are
seeing 
that cluster management tools like ClusterWorX help lower the total
cost-of-ownership," 
said Glen Lowry, president and CEO of Linux NetworX. "With the massive
amounts 
of data GX Technology and other seismic companies are dealing with, it's
imperative 
that the cluster is very stable and operates efficiently all of the time -
ClusterWorX 
helps administrators accomplish this." 

About GX Technology Corporation 
GX Technology is the leading provider of advanced seismic imaging solutions, 
focused especially on prestack depth and time migration. Oil and gas
companies 
use GXT's services to produce the highest fidelity images of the subsurface, 
significantly reducing the cost and risk of finding and producing petroleum. 
GX Technology is headquartered in Houston, has Service Centers in Houston,
Calgary, 
London and Jakarta and has additional offices in Paris and Beijing. Its Web
site 
can be accessed at www.gxt.com. 

About Linux NetworX 
Linux NetworX (www.linuxnetworx.com) brings its powerful and easy-to-manage
cluster 
technology to those demanding high performance and high availability systems. 
Linux NetworX provides solutions for organizations involved in oil and gas
exploration, 
aeronautical and chemical modeling, biotechnology research, graphics
rendering 
and visual effects, Web serving, ISPs, ASPs, and other technological research 
fields. Through its innovative Evolocity hardware, ICE cluster management
tools 
and professional service and support, Linux NetworX provides end-to-end
clustering 
solutions. To date, the company has built some of the largest cluster systems 
in the world, and boasts numerous Fortune 500 customers. 

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Contact

Brad Rutledge
801-562-1010 ext. 218
Linux NetworX
brutledge@linuxnetworx.com