Java

GridGain is an open source product written in Java providing a grid computing platform. It is known to be one of the more widely used grid product, certainly, as far as I see, one of the easiest to "gridify" or grid-enable an existing product.

One of the applications of the product is to couple with Amazon EC2 to make a "cloud" computing platform. See Gridgain + Amazon EC2

The widespread use of "multi-core" PCs also means that the product can be used to "parallelise" to take advantage of this increased power.

....Sun's approach to NetBeans is to use it as a vehicle to make tooling available for all new technology it is developing, *at the same time* as that technology. So, for example, JRuby and Ruby IDE tools are being created hand-in-hand, sometimes by the same people. The same goes for the Beans Binding, Swing Application Frameworks, and Matisse, which have significant crossover with the Swing team. Sun figures that the best technology is worthless if nobody can use it, so they want to make it accessible from day one. This is similar in some ways to Microsoft's strategy of providing first class tooling in Visual Studio, although VS is commercial while NB is free and open source.....

Amazon.com announced on Thursday a service to provide computing power on demand over the Internet.

This hosted service, called Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), is in limited beta testing and is aimed at software developers writing Web applications.

The service is offered to developers, who can tap into the server-processing service to quickly meet their application's changing needs. Rates start at 10 cents per "instance-hour" consumed--a dime for the use of a guaranteed minimum amount of computer capacity running particular server software......

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6109202.html?tag=nl.e589

NetBeans may be a hedge for ISVS against messy client choices by ZDNet's Dana Gardner -- These are just the sorts of things that Oracle is thinking over as it decides what to do about NetBeans.

Requirement

We require an Excel Add-In that wraps an existing program written in C/C++/Java

Background

Please read below carefully. Any questions, please feel free to let us know.

The current program consists of two blocks:

1. Numerical routines written in C/C++ (with some very simple perl scripts)
2. Backtesting routine written in Java

Numerical routines and Backtesting routine are completely separate. The numerical routines are invoked using Runtime process.

Backtesting routine is really a prototype and we are asking to re-implement the routine, using whichever language is suitable.