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Introducing Excel Services

http://blogs.technet.com/gmarchetti/archive/2007/07/09/accelerating-excel-by-parallelization.aspx

Note that Excel 2007 is able to use multiple threads to parallelize calculations on the workstation. Previous versions were not. When you hit “recalculate”, Excel will identify independent areas in your spreadsheet and allocate computations in those to separate threads. There are as many calculation threads as cores in your machine. So, before thinking of a cluster, think of a better workstation.

Check out this post about Microsoft Excel services which for some people might be an effective alternative to the existing DataSynapse or Platform alternatives.

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