The BioTeam Announces the Release of its Award-winning Software Solution iNquiry(R) for Microsoft Compute Cluster Server 2003.CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The BioTeam, an internationally recognized consulting collective dedicated to delivering vendor-agnostic informatics solutions to the life science industry, today announced that it is releasing their award winning iNquiry software on the Microsoft's new Windows Compute Cluster Server See Microsoft Cluster Server. 2003. The challenge is many informatics problems are data-intensive and require high computational power to solve. However, the individuals who work on these problems are not always experts in scalable computing. Science departments and other groups that are getting into high-performance computing High-speed computing, which typically refers to supercomputers used in scientific research. (HPC (Handheld PC) A palmtop computer that weighs less than one pound and runs specialized versions of popular applications. Microsoft coined the term for its Windows CE operating system, which is an abbreviated version of Windows. See Pocket PC. ) for the first time need a platform that is powerful but easy to use, and cost effective. The installation, customization and ongoing support of a scalable commodity cluster have traditionally presented a formidable challenge to busy scientists, and limited budgets. BioTeam's iNquiry software platform allows for the rapid deployment of a ready-to-use cluster and web portal See portal. optimized for use in life science informatics settings. It comes preconfigured Set up ahead of time. It implies that the device or software application has been modified to suit the customer or situation. See ghosting server. with many open source scientific applications and can easily be extended to support additional commercial, open-source or internally developed applications. Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. Compute Cluster Server (CCS (1) (Common Channel Signaling) A communications system in which one channel is used for signaling and different channels are used for voice/data transmission. Signaling System 7 (SS7) is a CCS system, also known as CCS7. See SS7. ) 2003 is a new HPC operating system specifically designed for group and departmental-level deployment. CCS contains everything you need to deploy a Windows-based cluster quickly and easily, even if you're not an HPC expert. "Windows Computer Cluster Server 2003 has everything needed to quickly deploy a Windows-based cluster. The combination of Microsoft's product and iNquiry will be a solid and compelling compute solution platform for researchers and scientists," said Michael Athanas, Ph.D., founding partner of The BioTeam. Combined with the scientific resources available through iNquiry, CCS provides a powerful and scalable HPC platform for bioinformatics researchers that installs rapidly and is easy to use. Visit The BioTeam's website for more information. About The BioTeam The BioTeam is a consulting collective dedicated to delivering vendor-neutral informatics solutions to the life science industry. The BioTeam provides complete beginning-to-end life science informatics and Bio-IT solutions and has proven success at bridging the Science-IT gap. For more information visit: www.bioteam.net. |
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