WestCoastGrid
very interesting stuff! But as a quant who writes complex spreadsheets used by a small number of traders how can this help me? i.e. dont I have to re-write my VBA to UDFs that CAN take advantage of a grid rather than simply deploy to a grid if you know what I mean?
Sam
Well, if you're going to move those spreadsheets to Excel Services, you're going to have to rewrite that VBA anyway: Excel Services doesn't handle VBA at all.
Another possibility (if you're doing lots of computation in VBA and don't want to move to Excel Services) is to invoke a process on the grid from within your VBA. The process you invoke may involve running Excel on grid nodes, or running pure computation that feeds data back into your spreadsheet.
And, yes, when moving any application to a grid, there is nearly always some work. We work very hard to minimize the amount of work it takes...but it's always something.
thanks for the comments - so one thing- is the digipede network based on microsoft compute cluster?
Rgds
Sam
Sam,
I don't think it is. Digipede has its own agents to run distributed.
If you have VBA apps that you don't want to change, you might want to look at Platform Symphony which has an excel runner feature to allow legacy excel apps with VBA to run in the grid.
James
Well, if you have VBA in your spreadsheets, I'd certainly suggest checking out the Digipede Network. Many of our customers distribute spreadsheets this way--VBA included!
Not to mention, choosing our product gives you access to earth's greatest SDK, so you can run amazing .NET processes on that same grid with your VBA spreadsheets.
Ah, and James was right--we're not based on CCS. We can certainly run on top of CCS (our customers are finding that it's the cheapest operating system for adding new hardware to their grid), but we can run on any MS OS.
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