[DRMAA-WG] DRMAA use case from Hess Corp.

[McCalla, Mac]

Hi Peter,

Sorry it has taken so long, but corporate approval was required to
"publish" any kind of public statement.  You may place this statement as
you like in the usage stories section of your website.

Statement for release:

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Hess Corporation: Use case for DRMAA.


Hess Corporation is a global integrated energy company engaged in the
exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas, as well as the
refining and marketing of petroleum products, natural gas and
electricity.

As part of our exploration activities, seismic data is acquired and
processed to create images of the earth's subsurface which can be
analyzed by geoscientists for indications of hydrocarbon deposits.

In order to process the seismic data for a particular area, which can be
several terabytes in size for a single seismic survey, we use a cluster
based supercomputing facility, composed of several thousand CPU and GPU
processors.  To help manage the tens of thousands of individual
application tasks created as part of the data processing and image
generation workflow, we use a commercially supported grid engine
software package.  

This grid engine software provides a "C-Programming language callable"
DRMAA library which is used by our application front-end to submit the
batch job streams which contain the processing and image generation
tasks to the compute cluster for execution.

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Best regards,

Mac McCalla
Geoscience Systems Development Advisor
Office - 713.609.5434 
Cell - 832.202.4262
E-mail - macmccalla at hess.com


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