Does your company have large financial spreadsheets with complex calculations that take a long time to finish? Doesn’t it make sense to have these calculations be done on servers instead of independent workstations?
Better yet: If the calculations are extremely complex, doesn’t it make sense to have these computations done across a farm of high-performance computing cluster nodes, like an array of Windows Server Computer Cluster Edition installations?
ENTER CLUSTERED EXCEL SERVICES
The idea is that properly structured spreadsheets can be parallelized using Excel 2007 and sent to a Windows Server Compute Cluster farm for computation. And because the farm is centralized, the entire company can leverage the same computational horsepower across multiple loads/jobs.
A diagram of how this works is below:
MORE INFO
If you’re interested in this technology, more information on "Clustered Excel Services for Financial Services" can be found here:
LINK: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/ccs/finserv/excel.mspx
WEBCAST
We also have a webcast on this technology called "Scaling Out Excel Calculations Using Windows Compute Cluster Server" available here:
WEBCAST: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032331351&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
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