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Re:The Microsoft Excel superstars throw down in Vegas by victorbjorklund on Friday June 14, 2024 @01:52PM (#40683087)
First statement maybe yes. Hard to find any software used in so many places with so much money / importance etc.

Second statement hard no. It is a good balance of ease of use, familarity and power but for sure not even close to being the most powerful tool to crunch numbers on scale.

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Re:The Microsoft Excel superstars throw down in Vegas by EricE on Friday June 14, 2024 @02:09PM (#40683277)
"not even close to being the most powerful tool to crunch numbers on scale." So what tool would be that's as broadly accessible as Excel is?
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Re:The Microsoft Excel superstars throw down in Vegas by kube-system on Friday June 14, 2024 @02:13PM (#40683324)
"powerful" is being used there in terms of real world impact: intuitively powerful. Not as in "raw compute power".
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Re:The Microsoft Excel superstars throw down in Vegas by hot_gril on Friday June 14, 2024 @03:04PM (#40683891)
Yeah, the crown for raw computer power for crunching numbers at scale would probably go to CUDA or, better yet, TPU job executors.
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Re:The Microsoft Excel superstars throw down in Vegas by kube-system on Friday June 14, 2024 @03:23PM (#40684097)
The fastest supercomputer is actually running AMD chips: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier_(supercomputer)
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