DocumentCode
3187215
Title
Integrating BOINC with Microsoft Excel: A Case Study
Author
Zhang, Jingri ; Mustafee, Navonil ; Saville, Jon ; Taylor, Simon J E
Author_Institution
Brunei Univ., Uxbridge
fYear
2007
fDate
25-28 June 2007
Firstpage
733
Lastpage
738
Abstract
The convergence of conventional Grid computing with public resource computing (PRC) offers potential benefits in the enterprise setting. For this work we took the popular PRC toolkit BOINC and used it to execute a previously monolithic Microsoft Excel financial model across several commodity computers. Our experience indicates that speedup approaching linear may be realised for certain scenarios, and that this approach offers a viable route to leveraging idle desktop PCs in the enterprise.
Keywords
business data processing; grid computing; open systems; spreadsheet programs; BOINC system; Microsoft excel; enterprise setting; grid computing; network computing; open infrastructure; public resource computing; Aggregates; Application software; Computational modeling; Convergence; Distributed computing; Grid computing; Job production systems; Partial response channels; Spreadsheet programs; Web server; BOINC; Desktop Grids; Excel; Public Resource Computing;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Information Technology Interfaces, 2007. ITI 2007. 29th International Conference on
Conference_Location
Cavtat
ISSN
1330-1012
Print_ISBN
953-7138-10-0
Electronic_ISBN
1330-1012
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ITI.2007.4283862
Filename
4283862
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