CUDA, Nvidia GPUs and Microsoft Excel can CUDA improve speed of MS Excel

I was able to get cuda function working in excel. If anyone is still interested in knowing step-by-step process of how I did that, please let me know. I can make a tutorial and post it along with source and compiled files.

Ashish

I was able to get cuda function working in excel. If anyone is still interested in knowing step-by-step process of how I did that, please let me know. I can make a tutorial and post it along with source and compiled files.

Ashish

Ashish, I would love to read your step-by-step tutorial. Also, I have just sent you a message on here. Kindly check that out.

Ashish, I would love to read your step-by-step tutorial. Also, I have just sent you a message on here. Kindly check that out.

Perhaps you could use Palo (jedox.com) – it is opensource OLAP engine for Excel which is able to use gpu acceleration (Jedox – Adaptable Financial Planning & Analysis Solutions).

Perhaps you could use Palo (jedox.com) – it is opensource OLAP engine for Excel which is able to use gpu acceleration (Jedox – Adaptable Financial Planning & Analysis Solutions).

Ashish

I too would love to know how you got this working. Ive been trying myself and havent managed it. Please let me know if you can

Thanks a lot

G

Ashish

I too would love to know how you got this working. Ive been trying myself and havent managed it. Please let me know if you can

Thanks a lot

G

Second that, Ashish it would be great if you could provide info. I have 512 CUDA cores available, so hoping to spreadsheets will be tamed soon

Second that, Ashish it would be great if you could provide info. I have 512 CUDA cores available, so hoping to spreadsheets will be tamed soon

Ashish,

Would be interested in your tutorial as well.

Regards,

Mike B.

Therez a book by Steve Dalton on XLL programming.

  1. Download the XLL programming toolkit from Microsoft for free.

  2. Try getting Steve Dalton book (either buy or if u r lucky u may find it on net)

    OR

    Read the CHM file that accompanies the toolkit. Although not very straightfwd, you can get it working

    after banging your head here n there…

  3. Write your first XLL function in C/C++

  4. Write your first XLL Macro function (so u can access many excel cells) - C/C++

  5. Start integrating C/C++ code with CUDA.

I saw the book by Dalton and plan to get but would like to get the tutorial as well is it is available. Thank you.

A little late in the game, but http://cuda.codeplex.com provides some rudimentary ability to call GPUs from Excel. It was built with the library at http://nxll.codeplex.com

Hi there, I know this is an old thread, but I was wondering if there has been any progression in this subject since it has been so long…?

I am looking for a solution to utilize CUDA capable add-in cards to accelerate processing calculations for very large and complex Excel spreadsheets to generate custom reports for a green energy finance company executives that I’m an IT Systems Administrator for.

Is anyone aware of an end product yet that is capable of such a thing, or close to producing such a product?

I found a couple of websites of some people who looked like they were starting to develop such products a few years ago and put on presentations at the ‘NVIDIA GPU Computing 2010′ back in July of 2010, but it looks like they never came through with an end product…
http://www.ntparallel.com/
http://rocketboost.wordpress.com/category/rocketboost-xl/

Appreciate any help - thanks!