I posted a question last week, but I didn't receive any responses, so I would like to rephrase. Please excuse the repeat.
I am looking to provide a financial modeling solution. We have a legacy, vendored appliation TAS from Classic Solutions (16-bit GUI on Windows Only) that parses and computes Monte Carlo simulations. These simulations are very CPU intensive, each simulation could consist of roughly 2 Billion calculations. Some models can be processed in a few hours, and some take as long as 3 weeks. Today, we have a group of 7 low-end PC's that reside on users' desktops. These 7 PC's, through manual interaction, can process ~50 models per day.
We are looking to a.) In the short term, automate these processes to involve a dedicated batch of 20 high-end PC's through a job or workload management system that would basically queue the jobs according to priority and farm them out to waiting, idle PC's. b.) In the long term, achieve all the goals of Step A and build a scalable system that will allow us to throttle or increase our throughput capacity with this application and/or another similar application.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
I am looking to provide a financial modeling solution. We have a legacy, vendored appliation TAS from Classic Solutions (16-bit GUI on Windows Only) that parses and computes Monte Carlo simulations. These simulations are very CPU intensive, each simulation could consist of roughly 2 Billion calculations. Some models can be processed in a few hours, and some take as long as 3 weeks. Today, we have a group of 7 low-end PC's that reside on users' desktops. These 7 PC's, through manual interaction, can process ~50 models per day.
We are looking to a.) In the short term, automate these processes to involve a dedicated batch of 20 high-end PC's through a job or workload management system that would basically queue the jobs according to priority and farm them out to waiting, idle PC's. b.) In the long term, achieve all the goals of Step A and build a scalable system that will allow us to throttle or increase our throughput capacity with this application and/or another similar application.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.