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Industry branches overview
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Grid Computing-Technologies are used especially in the area of the virtualization of IT and service infrastructures. The so-called Utility Computing, that is the dynamic purchase of computing power and storage capacities can be realized via Grid technologies according to the momentary requirements. Grid technologies also serve to improve the usage of unused or little used - but already available - IT-resources and thus to increase the performance and productivity of the enterprise. Fraunhofer Enterprise Grids has identified five key industrial branches which are particularly suitable to use such technologies because, on the one hand, they have a high need for the above-named benefits and, on the other hand, already bring along the best technical and organizational prerequisites to use Grid technologies fast and cost-efficiently.
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Automotive industry and engineering
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The need for improvements in the data flow and the cooperation between producers and suppliers exists particularly in the area of the automobile industry and in mechanical engineering. For this reason there is the necessity for a dynamic construction of virtual organizations particularly in this industry. Virtual organizations share resources restricted for a particular time period and for certain persons to realize modeling, simulations and optimizations of the production processes together and to exchange the development data in the safe surroundings in a comprehensible way.
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Finances
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The market for Grid technology in the financial area should expand according to the last report of TABB Group from 88 m $ to 1.2 bn $ until 2010. It is expected that 660 m $ will have been spent for software. At the moment there are primarily small innovative companies which develop the solutions for this area.
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Pharma
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The development of new drugs is a time-consuming process and requires a variety of steps towards the identification of candidate structures. In the so-called drug design pipeline prediction models are developed, based on known structures and desired properties. These are applied to new molecule structures to identify candidate structures suiting the requests. The simulative (»in silico«) realization of this costly search more and more replaces the traditional high throughput screening in which a very large number of different substance samples will be put to identical tests in a complex, highly automated installation.
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Media
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The media branch is characterized by broad variety and fragmentation: a variety of small and medium-sized enterprises, such as e.g. production companies and specialized service providers, stands vis-à-vis a low number of major players (newspaper publishers, TV stations, movie studios). However, the cooperation of these actors is carried out only over digital networks only tentatively at present. Here, the use of Grid technologies marks a promising solution approach. Particularly the film and TV branches show a high interest in Grid technologies already and are offering interesting challenges due to their high demands regarding data volumes and the interactivity of the necessary access.
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Oil drilling
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In the search for submarine oil field a current method for the detection of these oil fields is the detection of the reflections of acoustic signals at the layer borders of rock formations under the seabed via under-water microphones, so-called hydrophones. From the extremely extensive data one can win information about the composition of the submarine rock formations by using expensive and very resource intensive calculations and. Thus it is possible to gain valuable information on the probability of the storage of oil in these rock formations.
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