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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology Interfaces, 2007. ITI 2007. 29th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cavtat
Print_ISBN :
953-7138-10-0
Electronic_ISBN :
1330-1012
DOI :
10.1109/ITI.2007.4283862
