ASPEED Releases ACCELLERANT 4.1 for Excel.VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) A subset of Visual Basic that provides a common language for customizing Microsoft applications. VBA supports COM, which allows a VBA script to invoke internal functions within Excel, Word and other COM-based programs or to make use of and C/C C/C Center to Center C/C Combustion Chamber C/C Command/Control C/C Crew Chief C/C cabin cruiser (US DoD) C/C chief complaint (medical) C/C Channel-to-Channel C/C Communication and Collaboration ++ Support Increases Capabilities of Excel For Faster and Enhanced Decision-Making NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- ASPEED Software, the company optimizing application performance in the most advanced HPC (Handheld PC) A palmtop computer that weighs less than one pound and runs specialized versions of popular applications. Microsoft coined the term for its Windows CE operating system, which is an abbreviated version of Windows. See Pocket PC. environments, today announced the availability of ACCELLERANT 4.1 for Microsoft [R] Excel[R]. Vetted in several customer implementations, the solution cuts calculation times in half or better, by fully exploiting the parallelization capabilities of innovative multi-core hardware architectures. ACCELLERANT 4.1 for Excel contains an automated wizard and API enabling the easy parallelization of VBA functionality to seamlessly run in parallel, without re-engineering the application's flow or algorithmic content. This marks a clear step up over common lengthy and costly application re-writes necessary to exploit desktop multi-core capacity without ACCELLERANT. Several benchmark runs of both long running calculations and short Excel-based recalculations displayed consistent performance enhancements when exploiting multi-core environments: * 87 percent elapsed e·lapse intr.v. e·lapsed, e·laps·ing, e·laps·es To slip by; pass: Weeks elapsed before we could start renovating. n. run time reduction on the Intel[R] Xeon[R] 5300 2.66 GHz Quad Core A single chip with four distinct processors that work simultaneously. Intel introduced its first x86-based quad-core CPUs in late 2006 (see Core 2), and AMD introduced its first x86 quad-core chips in 2007 (see Opteron). See dual core. Dual Processor * 75 percent run time reduction on the Intel[R] Xeon[R] 5100 2.66GHz Dual Core Dual Processor * 50 percent run time reduction on the Intel[R] Xeon[R] Centrino Duo The Centrino chip platform that uses the Core Duo or Core 2 Duo CPU. See Centrino and Intel Core. 2GHz Processor "ACCELLERANT for Excel can be a big difference maker - as most organizations consistently rely on Excel serious spreadsheet calculations for high profile, time-sensitive business results - with applications ranging from risk management, pricing, decision support and reporting fundamental business metrics," said Kurt Ziegler, evp of product development for ASPEED. "Early adopters are already seeing marked time reductions - in most cases, reducing long-running applications by 4-8 hours and cutting short recalculations in half to 1/8 of the time, enabling more "what ifs" in the same time." Full VBA and C/C++ Support Makes Calculations Faster - and Better The addition of VBA support is the latest in a series of application environment expansions enabling desktop applications to quickly leverage multi-core and multi-processor desktop and laptop environments. Once ASPEED's ACCELLERANT is applied to the application, it can immediately take advantage of server, workgroup, cluster and grid configurations if the capacity is needed to bring the elapsed time e·lapsed time n. The measured duration of an event. Noun 1. elapsed time - the time that elapses while some event is occurring down further. ACCELLERANT 4.1 for Excel provides a comprehensive and flexible solution to significantly improve the elapsed times of long-running workbooks, or simply decrease the time for frequent short calculations. Users can seamlessly leverage their existing VBA and C/C++ based EXCEL programs while significantly reducing elapsed times using multi-core or multiple systems. For the VBA implementation, the ACCELLERANT System Developer Kit (SDK (Software Developer's Kit) See developer's toolkit and Windows SDK. SDK - Software Developers Kit (or "Software Development Kit"). ) provides a wizard that inserts an annotated template into existing Excel/VBA workbooks, making it especially easy for developers to apply the ACCELLERANT ActiveX-based API. This masks the underlying plumbing and logistics required to launch and manage multiple instances of the parallelized calculation from the program. Once it is applied in the VBA script, the workbook can run invoking the ACCELLERANT run-time library (operating system, programming, library) run-time library - A file containing routines which are linked with a program at run time rather than at compile-time. The advantage of such dynamic linking is that only one copy of the library needs to be stored, rather than a copy being , initiating the parallelization and managing the execution in real-time to ensure optimum performance and robustness. As added functionality, the ACCELLERANT for Excel SDK provides random number generator A program routine that produces a random number. Random numbers are created easily in a computer, since there are many random events that take place such as the duration between keystrokes. functions specifically designed to provide consistent computational results independent of the level of parallelization used. The SDK includes functions for Sobol and Halton quasi-random number sequences and generation of multidimensional Sobol sequences. These functions are provided in a Windows DLL (1) See data link layer. (2) (Dynamic Link Library) An executable program module in Windows that performs one or more functions at runtime. DLLs are not launched by the user; they are called for by an executable program or by other DLLs. , so they are also immediately available for use with any Windows-based applications using ACCELLERANT. ACCELLERANT for Excel is available as a package including the SDK and run-time licenses for up to five systems. Existing ASPEED clients will receive the ACCELLERANT for Excel 4.1 SDK as an update to their ACCELLERANT SDK. Enterprise pricing is also available. About ASPEED Software ASPEED Software Corporation is a privately held, venture-funded software company based in the heart of New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. with development centers in New York and London. ASPEED's value proposition is to enable clients with computationally intensive applications to significantly reduce response times and improve precision. ASPEED's ACCELLERANT software enables its users to quickly adapt their existing applications to use less expensive and newer hardware technologies in multi-processor, cluster and grid configurations. ACCELLERANT's algorithm-aware API enables the distribution of applications thought by many as "undistributable," improving competitiveness, productivity and accuracy of the analysis and to participate in company cluster and grid activity. For more information, please visit www.aspeed.com |
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