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http://westcoastgrid.blogspot.com [West Coast Grid] ...deploy your UDF to the cluster, and then use an XLL to (essentially - I am simplifying a tiny bit - and we will make sample code available at some point) call the UDF on the cluster with the appropriate parameters.I know there was a lot going on behind the scenes to make this happen--installing Excel Services on each cluster node, deploying an XLL around the cluster, etc.. Being a West Coast Grid guy, I wanted to see this run natively in .

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