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The BioTeam, an internationally recognized consulting collective dedicated to delivering vendor-agnostic informatics solutions to the life science industry, today announced that it will be amongst the first solution providers to offer a Life Science solution on the Microsoft's new Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. The BioTeam will be demonstrating a beta version of its iNquiry software for Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 at Supercomputing 2005 this week. iNquiry is BioTeam's ready-to-use cluster and web portal optimized for use in life science informatics. The portal installs more than 150 applications to instantly deliver a core of applications that scientists and researchers rely on. iNquiry simultaneously provides access the power required to perform complex computing computation together with simple access to the applications scientist routinely use. "Accelerating scientific discovery is an important application of Microsoft's new Window Compute Cluster Server 2003," said Kyril Faenov, Microsoft's Director of High-Performance Computing. "We see the BioTeam's iNquiry software as a good example of a turnkey, high-performance computing solution on the scientific desktop." "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. "I was pleasantly surprised by the solid core cluster software components in the product." The BioTeam plans to release iNquiry shortly after the general availability of Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, which is targeted for the first half of 2006.