BP, the energy sector giant, has a 4,000-employee campus in Houston, Texas, where some of the leading geoscientists in the world direct their operations throughout the Americas, including the Gulf of Mexico. In the oil&gas industry, compute clusters are crucial for complex seismic research that demands large computing power. Parallel jobs from applications that process seismic data from oilfields are typically submitted and managed by Distributed Resource Management (DRM) middleware, such as Sun Grid Engine, Platform LSF or PBS Pro.

In 2005, BP in Houston contracted GridwiseTech to configure and tune their data center resources, as well as provide recommendations on various practical issues regarding the use of their computational environment.

GridwiseTech’s consultants worked onsite with BP’s engineers and covered all their requirements regarding the optimal configuration and usage of the data center installation, as well as integrating the industry-specific parallel applications. Apart from that, GridwiseTech delivered three technical, topic-related training seminars to different groups of BP's administration and operations personnel.

The project closed leaving the customer satisfied with a solidly-configured, production-mode data center infrastructure, ready to compute intensive tasks without any loss in utilization and with considerable cost savings. Thanks to that, BP's engineers can comfortably test their ideas before using them in the field, which has given BP a real competitive edge in oil&gas exploration.

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