>The worst I have seen was a team of several hundred people who, on $200 half-broken laptops, were running - in parallel - 500MB Excel files for hours every day, which basically did a few linear operations on about 30 variables, before joining the results in a superfile itself taking up to 20 minutes just to open on a gaming-specced desktop.
This is my nightmare. I work on a sharedrive with large Excel files that conk out Excel. We are working on building a tool to do this work but it is slow going.
This is my nightmare. I work on a sharedrive with large Excel files that conk out Excel. We are working on building a tool to do this work but it is slow going.