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The MathWorks Announces Distributed Computing Support for Microsoft
The MathWorks today announced that its Distributed Computing Toolbox, which extends MATLAB by enabling the development of distributed and parallel applications, now supports Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. Through this integration with Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, engineers and scientists can now use MathWorks distributed computing tools to prototype, develop and run computationally and data intensive applications within Microsoft's high-performance, distributed computing environment, bringing the power of supercomputing to the personal and workgroup level. Today, engineers and scientists are facing more formidable computing challenges as a result of escalating complexity and diminishing time-to-market for product development. The Distributed Computing Toolbox support for third-party schedulers, such as Microsoft's Job Scheduler within Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 and Platform Computing's Platform LSF, lets users better address those challenges by enabling them to integrate MathWorks distributed computing tools into their existing distributed computing environments, saving time, increasing productivity, and reducing overall cost. 
"With the launch of Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, Microsoft is extending the power of desktop machines to individual and work group clusters, allowing users to get up-and-running with distributed computing tools easier and faster," said Lisa Kempler, director of MATLAB applications at The MathWorks. "The new Distributed Computing Toolbox support for Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 allows more MATLAB users to benefit from leveraging standard schedulers and underscores our commitment to bringing advanced high-performance computing tools to the engineering and scientific communities." "We are pleased to work with The MathWorks to help facilitate the next wave of discovery in the technical computing community by delivering software that addresses some of the barriers engineers and scientists face," said John Borozan, group product manager, Windows Server Division at Microsoft Corp. "The MathWorks' Distributed Computing Toolbox and Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 work together to simplify the process of developing distributed computing applications so that users can address more complex problems out of the gate." Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 is an integrated, standards-based compute clustering platform, built on top of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions, which empowers customers to harness distributed computing resources, such as the Distributed Computing Toolbox, to solve complex technical computing problems. Pricing and Availability The Distributed Computing Toolbox supports the full MATLAB language, most MathWorks products, and all supported MATLAB platforms, including Microsoft Windows, Solaris, Linux, and Macintosh. The MATLAB Distributed Computing Engine runs in either homogeneous or heterogeneous clusters. Both the Distributed Computing Toolbox and MATLAB Distributed Computing Engine are currently available with prices starting at $1,000 US for the toolbox, and $6,000 US for the engine. Support for Windows CCS 2003 is currently available to customers via download on the product Web site.
"With the launch of Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, Microsoft is extending the power of desktop machines to individual and work group clusters, allowing users to get up-and-running with distributed computing tools easier and faster," said Lisa Kempler, director of MATLAB applications at The MathWorks. "The new Distributed Computing Toolbox support for Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 allows more MATLAB users to benefit from leveraging standard schedulers and underscores our commitment to bringing advanced high-performance computing tools to the engineering and scientific communities." "We are pleased to work with The MathWorks to help facilitate the next wave of discovery in the technical computing community by delivering software that addresses some of the barriers engineers and scientists face," said John Borozan, group product manager, Windows Server Division at Microsoft Corp. "The MathWorks' Distributed Computing Toolbox and Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 work together to simplify the process of developing distributed computing applications so that users can address more complex problems out of the gate." Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 is an integrated, standards-based compute clustering platform, built on top of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions, which empowers customers to harness distributed computing resources, such as the Distributed Computing Toolbox, to solve complex technical computing problems. Pricing and Availability The Distributed Computing Toolbox supports the full MATLAB language, most MathWorks products, and all supported MATLAB platforms, including Microsoft Windows, Solaris, Linux, and Macintosh. The MATLAB Distributed Computing Engine runs in either homogeneous or heterogeneous clusters. Both the Distributed Computing Toolbox and MATLAB Distributed Computing Engine are currently available with prices starting at $1,000 US for the toolbox, and $6,000 US for the engine. Support for Windows CCS 2003 is currently available to customers via download on the product Web site.