In petroleum exploration and production areas, massive data collections of terabyte (TB) and petabyte (PB) scale need to be used and analyzed, moreover, in many cases, these data sets should be shared by large communities of users that pool their resources from different sites of a single organization or from a large number of institutions. Grid will become the information infrastructure of business workflow in the petroleum industry. Advances in grid computing technology will meet the tremendous and scalable demands of petroleum exploration and production for high performance computing. Grid ...
