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Announcing: Brilliant oil and gas whitepaper on industry use of Microsoft CCS for high performance computing

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Really cool news for all of you working in the HPC space with Microsoft. we have just announced a whitepaper at our Global Energy Forum in Houston, Texas. For those who like brief papers just read the text below -it is 58 pages but written in pure gold dust! Many of the learning's and observations are applicable elsewhere:

Survey: https://www.microsoft.com/industry/manufacturing/oilandgas/default.mspx

News release: https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/mar07/03-07GEF2007PR.mspx

Better Access to High-Performance Computing Could Increase Oil and Gas Production, Reports Microsoft Survey

Survey of more than 100 oil and gas experts shows industry rapidly moving toward enabling geoscientists to control their own technical computing environments.

HOUSTON — March 7, 2007 — Empowering geoscientists with more deskside high-performance computing power could increase oil and gas production overall, reports a new survey released today by Microsoft Corp. at the Microsoft® 2007 Global Energy Forum.

The Microsoft High-Performance Computing Oil and Gas Industry Survey 2007, sponsored by Microsoft and conducted by Houston-based Gelb Consulting Group Inc., shows a trend toward geoscientists in the oil and gas industry taking more personal control of their technical computing environments.

“Clearly, this research shows that oil and gas experts know the impact their work has on their companies’ success,” said Craig Hodges, director of the U.S. Energy Industry Unit at Microsoft. “They appreciate having computing power at their fingertips and also require smoother integration with the applications they use in analyzing and reporting the information on which they make critical decisions.”

Nice to see the deskside control of clusters occurring, and even better to see the OEM development of green computing allowing businesses to leverage the deskside clusters in the full data centre environment.

Enjoy!

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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    So the whitepaper I have just blogged about has hit the press and is being picked up fairly quickly,