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High performance spreadsheet simulation on a desktop grid

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  • J Pichitlamken
  • S Kajkamhaeng
  • P Uthayopas
  • R Kaewpuang

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In this paper, a high performance spreadsheet simulation system called S3 is presented. Our approach is to add power of parallel computing on Windows-based desktop grid into popular Excel models by using standard Web Services and Service-Oriented Architecture. The complexity of parallelism can be hidden from users through a well-defined computation template. Our desktop grid is built from off-the-shelf office PCs connected together using a high-speed network. The experimental results show that the prototype system can deliver high performance. We can obtain more than seven times speedup for some test applications on a 8-PC system. Moreover, the implementation is highly scalable since 80–95% parallel computing efficiency can be maintained as the problem size grows.

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  • J Pichitlamken & S Kajkamhaeng & P Uthayopas & R Kaewpuang, 2011. "High performance spreadsheet simulation on a desktop grid," Journal of Simulation, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 5(4), pages 266-278, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:tjsmxx:v:5:y:2011:i:4:p:266-278
    DOI: 10.1057/jos.2010.23
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