Comments on: Excel Services, grid and Microsoft Compute Cluster http://www.bladewatch.com/2007/02/12/excel-services-grid-and-microsoft-compute-cluster/ Tracking Blades, virtualization and grid Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:52:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: John Powers http://www.bladewatch.com/2007/02/12/excel-services-grid-and-microsoft-compute-cluster/comment-page-1/#comment-144 John Powers Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:16:51 +0000 http://www.bladewatch.com/2007/02/12/excel-services-grid-and-microsoft-compute-cluster/#comment-144 We agree. Analysts, traders, and quants live in Excel. It is most unnatural (and painful) to scale out calculations behind Excel using a Linux-based grid. Far easier is to use Microsoft Compute Cluster and the Digipede Network -- a combination that is gaining attention in finacial services companies large and small. With the new Compute Cluster edition, Microsoft has an OS offering that is price competitive in grid deployments of all sizes. Combine that with ease of adminsitration and an intuitive programming model, and we also see adoption rising -- rapidly. We agree. Analysts, traders, and quants live in Excel. It is most unnatural (and painful) to scale out calculations behind Excel using a Linux-based grid. Far easier is to use Microsoft Compute Cluster and the Digipede Network — a combination that is gaining attention in finacial services companies large and small.

With the new Compute Cluster edition, Microsoft has an OS offering that is price competitive in grid deployments of all sizes. Combine that with ease of adminsitration and an intuitive programming model, and we also see adoption rising — rapidly.

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