Financial Services Developer Conference 2008

Excel Solutions with CCS Antonio Zurlo Technology Specialist HPC Microsoft Corporation

Agenda Scheduler Architecture Excel2007 Client, Excel Services 2007 Excel2007 CCS Integration Demo

User AppMPI Node Manager Job Execution DB/FS User Cmd line Desktop App Job Mgr UI Admin Admin Console Cmd line Head Node Job Mgmt Resource Mgmt Cluster Mgmt Scheduling High speed, low latency interconnect Tasks Management Jobs Policy, reports Active Directory Web Services Data Input Domain\UserADomain\UserA 站长站素材 SC.chinaz.COM output

Common Job / Task Types

Scheduler UDF Jobs Results UDF User App MPI Compute Node Job Execution Head Node Job Mgmt Resource Mgmt Cluster Mgmt Scheduling Offloading Library Functions Excel to CSS Communication UDF Web Services UDF

Scheduler Jobs Results Head Node Job Mgmt Resource Mgmt Cluster Mgmt Scheduling Monte Carlo Simulations distributed on CCS Grid Schedule Job Excel Splitter

Earnings Projection Earnings Projection Business Issue Earnings Projections Sheet Runs for 3.5 Hours 120 Quarters Limited number of scenarios and projections Only 1,000 scenarios/1,000 projections/quarter Solution Utilize Microsoft Compute Cluster Server Creation of an Excel Splitter Make minimal changes on the original spreadsheet to accept input parameters (range of scenarios to calculate) and output data to delimited text files. Distribute the projection calculation over sixteen nodes in the Compute Cluster Each node on the cluster contains a copy of Excel and the modified spreadsheet. Sending a command to the head node begins the calculation in parallel Once the compute cluster job is complete, the Excel Splitter application aggregates the data and inserts it into the original spreadsheet.

Excel Splitter Solution

Earnings Projection Earnings Projection CPUsScenarios

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