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GridBR: The Challenge of Grid Computing

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Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC 2003)

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The use of grid computing technology is being boosted in last years by the growing demand of low cost computing resources and idle computing capacity in collaborative research and development environments. GridBR is a PETROBRAS project done with the collaboration of COPPE/UFRJ and IBM Brazil partnership. This project aims at grid computing technology in the information technology strategy of PETROBRAS Research and Development Center (CENPES). The present environment comprises a heterogeneous mix of architectures and operating systems with AIX IBM and Linux workstations providing the required support for collaborative execution of applications. The results of a genetic algorithm optimization application are presented as an example of how to take advantage of the existing grid computing infrastructure at PETROBRAS.

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  1. PETROBRAS Research and Development Center, Av. Hum, Quadra 7, Cidade Universitária, Ilha do Fundão, 21949-900, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

    S. R. R. Costa, L. G. Neves, F. Ayres, C. E. Mendonça & R. S. N. de Bragança

  2. IBM Brazil, Av. Pasteur, 138/146, 22296-900, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

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  3. COPPE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, P.O.Box 68516, 21945-970, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

    L. V. Ferreira, M. C. A. Costa & N. F. F. Ebecken

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiatong University, 80 Dongcuan Road, 200240, Shanghai, China

    Minglu Li

  2. Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA

    Xian-He Sun

  3. Department. of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiaotong University, 1954 HuaShan Road, 200030, Shanghai, P.R. China

    Qian-ni Deng

  4. Department of Computer Science, College of Liberal Arts, University of Iowa, 52242, Iowa City, IA, USA

    Jun Ni

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Costa, S.R.R. et al. (2004). GridBR: The Challenge of Grid Computing. In: Li, M., Sun, XH., Deng, Qn., Ni, J. (eds) Grid and Cooperative Computing. GCC 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3032. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24679-4_105

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