Help with our setup and output to Excel

Question

OK, I work for the EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD) here in Cincinnati.  We are working on this big project that is coming to an end.  Basically, we have four different carts going.  We have one ultra filtration cart (UF), one reservoir cart, one ion-exchange cart, and one RO cart.  The UF, reservoir, and RO carts will all be hooked up to the computer via DASYlab.
Currently, we think that we have our DASYlab setup correctly.  We want to graph everything over time and we want to export everything out to Excel so the data can be analysed later.  I have been in contact with DASYlab help but this really isn't there job.  I was wondering if someone could look at our DASYlab file (or give me idiot proof instuctions) into making sure that data is collected once every 2 seconds, the graphs are updated once every 2 seconds, and that the charts that will be output to Excel are updated once every 2 seconds.  We are working on a P-M 1.8GHz notebook with a 100GB hard drive and 2GB of RAM so it can definately handle the flow of data.
No one in our project (or TTEB branch) has any experience with DASYlab.  The last person to have this type of experience was working with Strawberry Tree back in the early 90's on a old 286 PC via DOS.  It was actually the job of the contractors who built our equipment to get everything setup.  However, they fell through as they didn't have any previous experience with DASYlab and they just didn't feal like reading through the 100's of pages of text.  This assignment was handed over to me just last week and I think I have everything setup correctly.  I just don't have to the time to fully read the manual.
I would appreciate any help.  If someone can help then feal free to PM me and I can e-mail them the two necessary files.
Thanks

Answer 1

Well I'm still pretty clueless about this, but for anyone who is looking at this and wondering, here's what I've gleaned:
1.  After Effects, especially CS6, makes much more and better use of graphics cards than does Premiere Pro.  I'm guessing that PP will, in future versions, make better use of them.  For now, no need to spend more than a couple hundred bucks on one.
2.  Update the software.  PP and AE both performed substantially better after installing the .01 update from adobe.  After you install the update, be sure to re-do the CUDA hack, if necessary.
3.  As it stands, money for a PP system is best spent on a processor, as in the newest Intel (currently Ivy Bridge), and overclocked.  This is where performance happens.  I'd say on a 2012 system, 16 GB RAM should be considered a minimum for video editing, and 24 or 32 if you can afford it.  More than that probably won't be utilized.  Hard disks can affect performance, but I don't think it's a bottleneck unless you're doing something that requires VERY fast/large reads and writes (4k source?).  Most people who have high-end editing stations also have a bunch of drives in RAID, but if you look at the performance chart, the SECOND highest scoring tester did not use RAID (though did use a presumably fast and large SSD).
Keep in mind that all of this has to do with RENDER speeds.  I still don't know what the bottleneck is for PREVIEWS, but I'm just going to assume it's the same.