High Performance Computing White Papers
IBM Grid Offering for IT Optimization: Petroleum Industry
Overview In recent years, a difficult, competitive environment has reinforced the need for petroleum organizations to better control their resources and improve productivity. Throughout this period, most organizations have undertaken IT optimization programs, but reducing expenses often negatively affects business and their prowess in the industry. Grid computing is a services-oriented architectural approach that uses open standards to enable distributed computing over the Internet, a private network or both. This approach can help agricultural chemical companies aggregate disparate IT elements such as compute resources, data storage and filing systems to create a single, unified system and address fluctuating workload requirements.
| Publisher | IBM | File Format | PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5 |
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| Date Published | November 2004 | ||
| Format | Case Studies | ||
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