Systems/Enterprise:
THE GRIDBUS PROJECT TO RELEASE ExcelGrid SOFTWARE
ExcelGrid is a tool that helps in extending Microsoft Excel from the desktop
to enterprise and global Grids as they provide the benefits of improved job
execution speed and result in getting processing done faster. It provides a
front-end to a Grid via Excel spreadsheet and performs user-defined
computations on enterprise Grids created using Alchemi and global Grids built
using Gridbus coupled with Globus, UNICORE and also Alchemi technologies. It
allows users to run jobs on remote computers, using an easy-to-use GUI, and
retrieve the results via the standard Excel spreadsheet interface
The ExcelGrid plug-in is developed by the Gridbus Project, Grid Computing and
Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Lab, Dept. of Computer Science and Software
Engineering, the University of Melbourne, Australia. The project is partially
supported by Australian Research Council Discovery Project grant, Storage
Technology and the University of Melbourne.
Main Features:
- Ability to run parametric-sweep applications composed using Excel, on
remote systems.
- Simple GUI interface to select/compose jobs, and launch them on the Grid.
- Read input from cells in a spreadsheet.
- Ability to monitor running jobs, and retrieve the results back to Excel
spreadsheet.
- Support for Gridbus broker and Alchemi middleware.
- No changes to the spreadsheet or additional programming/macros are needed.
The source code, binaries, and manual for Ex Download information: ExcelGrid
can be downloaded from www.gridbus.org/excelgrid/.
Contact Information
For further details about ExcelGrid and/or the Gridbus project please contact:
Licenses and Disclaimer
The ExcelGrid plug-in is distributed under the GNU General Public License
(GPL) www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt.
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