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: --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Best regards, Mac McCalla Geoscience Systems Development Advisor Office - 713.609.5434 Cell - 832.202.4262 E-mail - macmccalla@hess.com This e-mail and any attachments are for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain information that is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient(s) and have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by return e-mail and delete this e-mail from your computer. Any distribution, disclosure or the taking of any other action by anyone other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited.