Microsoft is betting that advances in drug design, seismic imaging, manufacturing, financial modeling, and digital animation mean many business technologists will need access to the same supercomputing power that traditionally has been the province of university and government research labs. At the SC2004 supercomputing conference in Pittsburgh next week, the vendor plans to demonstrate for the first time a version of Windows it has developed aimed at the high-performance computing market and distribute a software development kit for the system.
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