“Switch from IBM saves Hess nearly $2M”
“Saddled with low oil prices and a need to cut costs, global oil
giant Amerada Hess Corp. is saving millions of dollars by replacing
a costly IBM supercomputer with high-end parallel clusters running
Linux, the free Unix variant that some CIOs still regard as a wild
card.”
“A 32-node Linux cluster, called a Beowulf supercomputer, lets
the company render detailed 3-D images of the seafloor from
terabytes of data.”