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Job Submission Sample Download

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The download sample that accompanies this developer guide, the Excel Services and Excel 2007 Windows Compute Cluster Server Job Submission Sample and its supporting files (OfficeExcelServicesECSCCSSamples.exe), demonstrates how you can use a compute cluster to improve workbook performance when running a parametric sweep.

The sample gives users the ability to schedule or immediately submit Microsoft Office Excel 2007 workbooks to a server running Windows Compute Cluster Server (CCS) 2003. Using this sample, large and long-running workbook calculations can be offloaded to a compute cluster. This makes it possible to take advantage of the parallel computing and high availability of a compute cluster to deliver results faster and more reliably than by calculating workbooks on a single desktop computer.

Note

If you have installed Visual Studio on a drive other than the C drive, you must modify the path to gacutil.exe in the PostEvents.bat file. The PostEvents.bat file is included in the sample download. All server names in the projects and solutions point to localhost. To test any changes made in the solution, use the installers for their respective project/codebase. This enables the installation process to establish the configuration of the environment. When you open the solution for the first time, you might get an initial message that a required DLL is missing from the global assembly cache. This message will only appear before the first build, and is not displayed after you build the solution for the first time.

Download OfficeExcelServicesECSCCSSamples.exe.

System Requirements

Following are the software and hardware requirements for running the Job Submission Sample download.

For Software Requirements Hardware Requirements

Compute cluster head node

  • Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003

  • Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

  • Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition

  • Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0

  • Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2005

  • 64-bit CPU, 2.5 GHz or faster, multi-processor preferred

  • 2 GB of RAM or higher

  • 7 GB minimum disk space

  • Two disk volumes

Compute cluster compute node

  • Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003

  • Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

  • Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition

  • Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0

  • Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2005

  • 64-bit CPU, 2.5 GHz or higher, multi-processor preferred

  • 2 GB of RAM or higher

  • 7 GB minimum disk space

  • One disk volume

Excel client

  • Microsoft Office Excel 2007

  • Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

  • Windows Vista, Windows XP with Service Pack 2, or Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1

  • 500 MHz CPU or faster

  • 256 MB RAM or higher

  • 1.5 GB minimum disk space

See Also

Concepts

Walkthrough: Creating a Parametric Sweep Workbook for the Job Submission Task Pane
Performing a Parametric Sweep using the Job Submission Sample
Job Submission Task Pane Add-in
Dependent Technology Overview for the Job Submission Sample
Hardware and Software Requirements for the Job Submission Sample
Installing a Compute Cluster for the Job Submission Sample
Manually Installing the Job Submission Sample
Overview of Excel Calculation Services on Compute Cluster Server API
Additional Resources