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> At a key supercomputing conference on Monday, Microsoft released > a test version of its Excel spreadsheet redesigned to run on powerful > clusters of servers. Very interesting news to me. I didn't attend SC09, though. > By engineering Excel to run better on such clusters Microsoft said that > customers are seeing spreadsheets that normally would take weeks to calculate > now run in a few hours. I'm not sure what was done in the calculation, though, I assmue a lot of matrix-matrix, matrix-vector manipuation were performed. I assume Excel might use BLAS, LAPACK and ScaLAPACK for such kind of things. I like GotoBLAS, the fastest BLAS and partial LAPACK implemntation, but it is not a free software. ATLAS is a free software though, it tunes itself while building. Thanks, -- Nakata Maho http://accc.riken.jp/maho/ , http://ja.openoffice.org/ Nakata Maho's PGP public keys: http://accc.riken.jp/maho/maho.pgp.txt --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
