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Microsoft Tries to Make Computers More Super (Excel running on 1000 PC's in parallel)
Wall Street Journal ^
| May 17, 2010
| Nick Wingfield
Posted on 05/18/2010 1:14:01 PM PDT by reaganaut1
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Good grief. Excel is a fine interactive program, but instead of figuring out how to run spreadsheets fast over a thousand machines in parallel, it's better to put the computationally intensive parts in C or Fortran using a DLL or something and use Excel as the interface, not the engine.
To: reaganaut1
I’ve never had a problem running Excel on a single computer.
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posted on
05/18/2010 1:16:12 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: reaganaut1
This is what happens I guess when a product is essentially as mature as it’s going to get and the dev team is looking for something to do...hehe
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posted on
05/18/2010 1:16:46 PM PDT
by
DonaldC
(A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
To: reaganaut1
Excel has had resolution problems if one was using numbers smaller than integers.
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posted on
05/18/2010 1:17:19 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
05/18/2010 1:18:05 PM PDT
by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
To: reaganaut1
Its plan of attack: make the machines easier to use. How bout starting with making it easier to see ALL computers in a heterogenous network!
For the life of me I don't know why they think they have to change networking on every new g-damn version of Windows.
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posted on
05/18/2010 1:19:34 PM PDT
by
unixfox
(Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
To: reaganaut1
...will allow a program like Excel to run in parallel on thousands of machines so the application can be used to tackle monster financial computing chores ...like computing the NATIONAL DEBT AND THE DEFICIT SIMULTANEOUSLY!..................
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posted on
05/18/2010 1:21:40 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you'll know that its desolation is NEAR. Luke 21)
To: Paladin2
I was going to ask if they fixed the math first before starting the massively parallel pi$$-poor processing.
/johnny
To: All
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posted on
05/18/2010 1:23:40 PM PDT
by
Proud_texan
(Scare people enough and they'll do anything.)
To: All
sorry microsoft but cloud computing is security unacceptable
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posted on
05/18/2010 1:25:53 PM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: reaganaut1
I’d be happy to see their software work well on just one computer.
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posted on
05/18/2010 1:27:06 PM PDT
by
GingisK
To: longtermmemmory
That’s always been my objection to it. I’m not certain I would want all of my data spread across a bunch of computers I don’t control.
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posted on
05/18/2010 1:28:53 PM PDT
by
Sudetenland
(Slow to anger but terrible in vengence...such is the character of the American people.)
To: reaganaut1
Old reliable - Blue Screen of Life!
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posted on
05/18/2010 1:29:01 PM PDT
by
SERKIT
("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
To: Sudetenland
imagine a brokerage firm using cloud computer and a hacker creates a crash by just infesting one computer in the cloud.
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posted on
05/18/2010 1:30:03 PM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: reaganaut1
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posted on
05/18/2010 1:30:36 PM PDT
by
Disambiguator
(Progressivism, Socialism, Marxism, Communism - it's all shades of black.)
To: JRandomFreeper
I have no idea. I'm just speaking from experiences from the "old daze".
I wuz using Excel to do some numerical modeling and couldn't explain to my boss why there were these oscillations as things approached Zer0. Later I found out that M$ had pimped me.
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posted on
05/18/2010 1:32:37 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: reaganaut1
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posted on
05/18/2010 1:33:38 PM PDT
by
TChris
("Hello", the politician lied.)
To: reaganaut1
You’re against bloatware!
Communist!
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posted on
05/18/2010 1:33:42 PM PDT
by
Fido969
("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
To: Disambiguator
I have both a Furby and a pet rock. They do not exist in the computer lab/electronics lab that constitutes my grown daughters’ bedroom though.
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posted on
05/18/2010 1:35:49 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Paladin2
Some linux distros have a problem with advanced floating point routines. They quietly fail and fall back on (MUCH slower) kernel FP. Try explaining to your boss that your laptop can run the FP calcs twice as fast as the new, shiny server with a flakey distro. ;)
/johnny
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