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Re: [sc-dev] Microsoft testing Excel for supercomputers

Niklas Nebel
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:21:03 -0800

On 11/19/09 16:00, Kohei Yoshida wrote:
On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 09:25 +0100, Erich Neuwirth wrote:
Hello,
Excel 2007 already does parallel computing.
A spreadsheet program internally creates a dependency graph
of the cells. A dependency graph also knows which parts
of a complex calculation are not dependent on each other,
and therefore can be run in parallel.

Gotcha.  So Excel's formula calculation is already multi-threaded.  This
is an area we should still work on to improve with Calc.

The idea has of course come up before (see http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Calc/Performance/misc), but it hasn't been evaluated in much detail yet.

Niklas

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