Frontier Powered Apps
Crush™

Deep statistical data mining to get at the real value in your data.

Use Crush to define and launch your job directly from Excel

Crush is an optimized data mining and statistical analysis application built to take advantage of the computational power of the Frontier Grid Platform. In addition to the massive horsepower behind the analytics, you can launch the jobs right from within Excel. It's easy, fast and can analyze an unprecedented number of variables at one time.

The Crush features include:

  • Easy to use Excel interface. Simply install the Parabon Crush add-in for Excel from the Excel drop down menu
  • Supports linear, logit, and ordered regression analysis
  • Identifies optimal models according to any of a variety of fitness measures, including adjusted R2, log likelihood, and root mean squared prediction error (RMSPE) via k-fold cross validation.
  • Searches model spaces exhaustively, combinatorially, or using opportunistic evolutionary search
  • Supports programmatic execution and XML specification for easy integration into existing workflows

Crush, in its earliest incarnation, was created in 2000 and was the first application built for Frontier. Over the years, it has been used in many fields and by a wide variety of researchers, including researchers in the pharmaceutical and medical research fields and at the US Geological Survey.

Watch our brief introduction video to see how easy and powerful it is.

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With use of the [Crush] application on Frontier, we were able to look at 34 different independent variables (producing about 8.6 billion linear combinations) in less than 24 hours of computing time." Dr. Frondorf, US Geological Survey

Parabon's computational grid allowed us, for the first time, to [programmatically] examine each of the billions of possible combinations of factors to find the most [statistically] powerful models. As a result, we found relationships that we had not anticipated." Eddie Reed, MD, Oncology Researcher

Access to massive computations helped find correlations that we were not otherwise able to consider." Dr. Karen Balzer, Medical Researcher at WVU