... decided earlier this month it will drop West Texas Intermediate (WTI) as the benchmark for pricing its oil for sale in the US market. In January 2010, Aramco will use the Argus Sour Crude Index (ASCI) to price its oil for the market; it’s heavier and has higher sulfur content than WTI. The index, launched in May, uses the volume-weighted average of daily spot sales of the three U.S. Gulf ...

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IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE), a leading operator of global regulated futures exchanges, clearing houses and over-the-counter (OTC) markets, today announced the introduction of two cash-settled futures contracts based on the Argus Sour Crude Index (ASCI) and cleared by ICE Clear Europe.

... won't change the way this oil is traded by nearly as much as it might appear. Without getting into all of its details, as I understand it the ASCI is effectively a composite daily report of the deals done for three ... still don't think we entirely understand. The market will pass its own judgment on ASCI and other new tools like it. If it proves useful to traders and risk managers, it could ...

... ;s leading energy exchanges, have both introduced new contracts based on ASCI. They begin trading this month. “They could be comparable to other ... for many financial investors looking to buy oil futures, while ASCI contracts may hold greater appeal for traders who also ... play a dominant role. For now, sour crudes that make up ASCI remain tied to WTI, since they are priced in relation to ...

... thanksgiving for the gift of new life. This week, Professor and Mrs. Asci welcomed their 6th child into the world, a beautiful little girl with ... a just as beautiful Italian name: Caterina Lucia Marie Asci. Now the family is evenly matched with 3 boys and three girls ... , especially the precious gift of a new life. To send a note to the Asci family, you can reach by e-mail at dasci@franciscan.edu Baby ...

... 8211; BLADE Network Technologies, Inc. (BLADE), the trusted leader in data center networking, today announced that its BLADE RackSwitch G8124 and G8000 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) switches have been successfully deployed by The Netherlands’ Advanced School for Computing and Imaging (ASCI) in its Distributed ASCI Supercomputer 3 (DAS-3) High Performance Cluster … (read the story…)

... find a young man in his underwear was also deemed obscene. The complaint registered with the ASCI reads, "Visuals of 'a woman sensually and orally enjoying the ... not suitable for unrestricted public exhibition." The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI), a self-regulatory voluntary organisation of the advertising industry, also has a code in ...

... PS) in Hyderabad. He stayed with my family at the Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI), where my father was principal. In the years since, he completed a PhD and founded a successful company in a field ... more than I learned in PS. I remember him walking up after a tough badminton match at ASCI against a much younger opponent, summing the outcome in one pithy line by saying the better man ...

... Gerbi in Finale de Polina just after 13:30. The weather was warm, the pitch was large and we soon had the chairs and table out and laid with lunch. Rais Gerbi is one of the campsites that operates the ASCI Card discount scheme - €15 per night. It is a very comfortable site, good facilities, lovely sea views and the village of Finale just half a kilometre away. Photos: Our overnight pitch in the ...

... forced Petroleos Mexicanos to cut 90 wells at onshore fields in the western states of Veracruz and Tabasco. At the same time, news that Hurricane Ida has entered the southern Gulf also boosted oil price. In late October, Saudi Aramco, the state-owned company in Saudi Arabia, announced it would price it oil using ASCI instead of WTI starting from 2010. CEO Khalid Al-Falih said over the weekend that

... studied and memorised about Dog mating behaviour together (to the utter hilarity of our other course mates). We sat through tons of boring lectures, frantically copying notes at breckneck speed. We sat at the ASci corridor studying, she with her can of iced milo and me with my bottle of green tea. Those were our daily staple then. It still is now. Gods, how I miss those days - those times when we ...

... ," said Bland. As amazing as supercomputing systems are, they remain primitive and current designs soak up too much power, space and money. It wasn't until 1997 that the first teraflop system, ASCI Red at Sandia National Lab, broke the teraflop barrier, reaching one trillion calculations per second. In 2008 IBM's Roadrunner at the Los Alamos National Laboratory achieved petaflop ...

... resources to solve problems larger than those resources could practically solve while remaining separate. This was importantly contrasted with the work then being done on purpose-built massively parallel systems like ASCI Red. In one direction, grid computing led to the federation of multiple such systems so that they could be used remotely. In another direction, it led to things like Seti@ ...

via youtube.com How wasn't this one of the coolest things ever? I remember, over a decade ago, marveling at the time and effort taken to accomplish this. Even thought this only takes us from the intro to meeting Obi Wan, the effort is Herculean. I know that to some, you may look at this and think "WTF is he on about?" Trust me and watch. Even if you weren't raised on with ...