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Excel multi-threading calculations on 8 processors

Ever wondered what it means to have Excel multi-thread its calculations? On a 64bit I7 computer, crunching 500,000 rows of calculations for the Euler 36 problem resulted in the below. The display was from the 64bit version of the Process Explorer program (www.sysinternals.com though now a part of Microsoft at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx). HTML clipboard Read More...

Read the complete post at http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2009/03/19/excel-multi-threading-calculations-on-8-processors/


Posted Mar 19 2009, 03:57 AM by Daily Dose of Excel
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