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Summary: ActiveSheets: Super-Computing with Spreadsheets
David Abramson , Paul Roe §, Lew Kotler and Dinelli Mather 8
School of Computer Science and § School of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Software Engineering Queensland University of Technology,
Monash University, Gardens point Campus
CLAYTON, VIC 3168, Australia Brisbane QLD 4000, Australia
Australian Radiation Protection and 8 School of Business Systems
Nuclear Safety Agency Monash University,
Lower Plenty Road CLAYTON, VIC 3168, Australia
YALLAMBIE VIC 3085, Australia
ABSTRACT
Spreadsheets are important business tools. Increasingly they
are being used for simulation e.g. to perform risk analysis.
Such tasks have far greater computational demands than
traditional spreadsheet bookkeeping applications. In this
paper we show how spreadsheets can support
supercomputing. This is achieved without requiring the
spreadsheet user to have specialist tools or knowledge. The
key technical innovation is a mechanism enabling the
concurrent evaluation of spreadsheet functions. Furthermore
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