Plus the speed is surprising many.

Post #40,039 by brettj 5/27/02 10:30:29 AM Reply	Plus the speed is surprising many. I heard the Movie Industry say this and now the Oil Industry is realizing it. Some people just have the need for speed. (" [link\|http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/05/24/020524hnibmlinux.xml\| IBM, Landmark take Linux to oil industry] By Nancy Weil May 24, 2002 7:27 am PT IBM AND LANDMARK Graphics have signed a three-year deal to provide software, hardware and services to the global petroleum industry and could potentially make Linux the standard platform for oil and gas exploration and production. .... The company approached IBM with Linux in mind, officials of both IBM and Landmark said. The deal is part of IBM's previously announced US$1 billion Linux initiative, and that effort is part of what attracted Landmark when it came time to forge the partnership, Landmark executives said. "We clearly think they're the leader in the industry with the [Linux] investment they've made to date," said Landmark president and chief executive officer Andy Lane. The companies will offer Linux for advanced 3D graphics on desktops to Landmark customers, as well as server and mobile computing products and advanced cluster technology for supercomputing applications. IBM Global Services will offer operational support, outsourcing and IT consulting to Landmark customers as part of the deal. Halliburton's bevy of customers includes top oil and gas companies such as BP PLC, Shell Oil, Chevron/Texaco and Exxon Mobil. That customer roster is why the deal could wind up making Linux the standard for the industry, executives said. .... What they didn't expect as they began porting desktop applications to Linux was the performance boost in computing speed they saw in tests, with two to five times improvement and in some cases up to 30 times. "It really surprised us," Lane said. The possibility of even much smaller performance gains is exciting for the worldwide petroleum exploration and production (E&P) industry. "What we're trying to do in essence is look down in the earth. These [computers] are MRIs on super steroids," Sherman said, comparing the procedure to magnetic resonance imaging, a medical procedure that takes highly detailed images of a patient's insides, including organs, tissues and blood flow. E&P requires the ability to crunch enormous amounts of data as quickly as possible. That crunching ideally needs to take place at both, say, oil rigs out in the Gulf of Mexico as well as back at central data hubs, which can then disperse data analysis to other operations.
Post #40,041 by Andrew Grygus 5/27/02 11:00:21 AM Reply	Nothing new here, except . . . . IBM's involvement. Oil companies were building Linux supercomputers well before the studios started using them. It's already an established market, which is why IBM is getting into it. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #40,068 by Ashton 5/27/02 3:45:49 PM Reply	Could IBM's mastery of the subtle undermining scenario be related to the fact of top management's being no longer under quite so much testosterone-driven wet dreams - as the Kiddie-porn Mafia? Ahhh.. mature Corporate cynicism is so.. refreshing - after the daily wallow in juvenile trashing, thrashing & thrusting ads. Mayhaps: a BIIG Tortoise vs. a skanky hare? :-\ufffd
Post #40,069 by orion 5/27/02 4:00:29 PM Reply	Say goodbye to MS-Shops and hopefully the PHBs that ran them. Nobody ever got fired for suggesting Microsoft, have they? *I am free now, to choose my own destiny.*
Post #40,085 by Andrew Grygus 5/27/02 5:34:42 PM Reply	Microsoft was never there. Oil exploration was the territory of traditional supercomputers. Microsoft has never had a prayer of an offering in that market -"Boss, I recommend we save money by replacing the Cray with a quad pentium IV running Windows 2000" would indeed get you fired. When an oil company needs a new super, they build a Linux cluster, because their applications are appropriate for cluster processing (not all supercomputer applications are). Unfortunately, most high profile Linux success stories are not about replacing Microsoft. They are, however, sometimes about locking Microsoft out in the future. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #40,118 by orion 5/27/02 10:25:58 PM Reply	Well for one place I worked at they got rid of a Wang with a server with 4 Pentium Pro Processors and Windows NT. Don't ask me why, I just worked there. The powers that be had decided that the NT Server would do more good than the Wang system. The head Wang guy became the Office Snitch to protect his job, get the dirt on other people or make stuff up if he couldn't get any dirt. Why? Because he hardly had any NT experience and all his Wang skills were not obsolite. Of course we offered to teach him Visual BASIC, VBA, HTML, etc but he rejected it. Doctoring photos in Photoshop and editing Wav files to make others look guilty was too much fun for him. *I am free now, to choose my own destiny.*
Post #40,413 by CRConrad 5/29/02 7:46:57 PM Reply	Stop rehashing old shit - go choose a new destiny instead!
Post #40,162 by brettj 5/28/02 10:24:48 AM Reply	Ah yes. Amerada Hess & Schlumberger. I had to go back to the Penguin Files to find them. Thanks for reminding me. [link\|http://www.geocities.com/whirrldpeas/penguin.html\| The Penguin Files, 1999]

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