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[โ€“] ftbd@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

the world of number crunching

Weird, I've never heard of excel being used on HPC systems

[โ€“] esc27@lemmy.world 2 points 6 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.