the world of number crunching
Weird, I’ve never heard of excel being used on HPC systems
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shalafi@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Excel dominates the world of number crunching. Want to change that? You can’t.
Imagine proposing an alternative for your organization that has been using Excel for two decades. Will every single sheet and workbook translate perfectly? If not, not good enough for dealing with numbers. The risk/reward calculation (heh) is not a fit for open source spreadsheets.
ftbd@feddit.org 2 days ago
esc27@lemmy.world 2 days ago
In my experience the people relying on Excel cannot be bothered to learn Linux or job scheduling. So instead they get 10-20 thousand dollar dedicated workstations for excel, spss, etc.
Thankfully the newer hires are more flexible.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 days ago
yup its used alot in chemistry classes for measuring alot of experiments, or if you taken college gen chem you will be using it very often.
Grimtuck@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Not just within your organisation, but imagine trying to share something other than Excel outside of it!
stoy@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
CSVs are a common format to share data
Nikelui@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yes, but data only.
sunstoned@lemmus.org 1 day ago
That’s not very Libre(office) of you there, partner
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Haha, Microsoft absolutely changes shit all the time. Millions of organisations around the world have an octogenarian computer standing somewhere in a corner because they need it running the old software.
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Not Excel they don’t, not ever.