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The Gridbus Project to Release ExcelGrid Software
11 November 2004
SC 2004 Exhibit (Melbourne), Pittsburgh, USA, 10 November 2004
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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.

We are grateful to, and sincerely thank all the people who contributed to
the ExcelGrid project.

Main Features:
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- 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


Download information:
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The source code, binaries, and manual for ExcelGrid can be downloaded from
http://www.gridbus.org/excelgrid/


Contact Information:
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For further details about ExcelGrid and/or the Gridbus project please
contact:
Dr. Rajkumar Buyya (raj@...)
Krishna Nadiminti (kna@...)


Licenses and Disclaimer:
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The ExcelGrid plug-in is distributed under the GNU General Public License
(GPL) (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt).
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