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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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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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