Installing Powerpivot for Sharepoint 2013 with SQL Server 2008 R2

Hi,
We are currently setting up a Sharepoint 2013 Enterprise farm with the backend database server being SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 - my question is can you install Powerpivot for Sharepoint 2013 in this configuration and if so what are the steps?
Thanks in advance!

Here is Microsoft's documentation to Configure Power Pivot for SharePoint 2013
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