Windows HPC and Microsoft Excel: Resources for Building Cluster-Ready Workbooks

This is a list of community, external resources for accelerating Excel calculations by offloading to a Windows HPC cluster. You can add to the list, and feel free to rearrange. Just click the "Edit" button above the article.

Overviews

HPC Services for Excel(TechNet articles and management guidance)
What is included in HPC Services for Excel (TechNet article)
Accelerating Microsoft® Excel® 2010 with Windows® HPC Server 2008 R2: Technical Overview (white paper)
Introducing HPC Services for Excel 2010 (narrated presentation)
Best practices on using Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 for Excel 2010 (narrated presentation)
Using HPC Services for Excel 2010 in Insurance and Capital Markets (narrated presentation)
Excel Solution Development (narrated presentation)
Excel 2010 and High Performance Computing (MSDN blog post)
Offloading UDF’s to a Windows HPC Cluster (MSDN blog post)
Do you have the Excel spreadsheet from Hell... (MVP blog post)

How to guides

Using the Excel Cluster Connector to Offload UDFs (how to configure offloading from Excel 2010)
HPC Macros (msdn developer reference)
Best Practices for Using the HPC Macros to Run Excel Workbooks on a Cluster (article)
Converting Cluster-Safe UDFs for Offloading to a Windows® HPC Cluster (article and samples)
Building VBA applications and workbooks for a Windows HPC Cluster (article and samples)
Building .NET Applications that Run Excel Calculations on a Windows HPC Cluster (article and samples)
Building Custom Clients and Services to Offload Excel Calculations to a Windows HPC Cluster (article and samples)

Software Development Kits

HPC Pack 2008 R2 SDK (SDK download)
Microsoft Excel 2010 XLL Software Development Kit (documentation)
Excel 2010 SDK: Excel 2010 XLL Software Development Kit (SDK download)

Code Samples

HPC Pack 2008 R2 SDK (HPC2008R2.SampleCode.zip)

Training and labs

Scaling out VBA Enabled Excel Workbooks with Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 (virtual lab)
Using HPC Service for Excel 2010 to Accelerate a Pricing Senitivity Calculation (virtual lab)
Accelerating Excel 2010 with Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 (2-day course)

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