SEATTLE — Nov. 15, 2005 — Today at Supercomputing 2005 , an international conference for high-performance computing (HPC), networking and storage, Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates delivered the opening keynote address to more than 7,000 attendees. In the address, titled “The Role of Computing in the Sciences, Gates shared a vision of how the software industry can contribute to accelerating scientific research and engineering innovation, calling for broad collaboration between the computing industry, academia and government to make technical computing easier and more productive. Gates also announced that, as part of the company’s steps toward realizing this vision, Microsoft is funding joint research projects at 10 academic centers worldwide and has released the beta 2 version of Windows® Compute Cluster Server 2003, Microsoft’s first product offering for high-performance computing.
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