NEW YORK, NY (April 27, 2009) – Schrödinger announced today that it will support its entire molecular modeling platform, including distributed and parallel applications, for execution on cluster architectures running Microsoft’s Windows HPC Server 2008. “We are thrilled about making our software available on Windows HPC Server 2008 as it will provide seamless job submission from Windows workstations to Windows clusters,” said Schrödinger president, Ramy Farid, Ph.D.

Windows HPC Server 2008 incorporates a comprehensive set of management, administrative, and diagnostic tools, along with built-in wizards to simplify the support of large clusters. “It’s exciting. We’ve even found interest among traditional UNIX/Linux customers, due to the ease of administration of Windows clusters running Windows HPC Server 2008,” said Farid. Windows users of Schrödinger Suite 2009 can also expect increased integration between Schrödinger applications and Windows applications, including copy/paste of molecular images into Microsoft Office. In addition, Schrödinger is working with Microsoft to develop a plug-in for viewing and manipulating 3D structures through its molecular modeling interface, Maestro, within Microsoft PowerPoint. Computational chemists, molecular modelers, and medicinal chemists can look forward to additional Windows-based software advancements from Schrödinger. The company also recently announced that it plans to support Windows 7. Schrödinger’s recent partnership with Microsoft Corporation has accelerated the deployment of Schrödinger software onto the Windows platform. “We are committed to providing our customers with innovative products for molecular modeling – our partnership with Microsoft helps us to fulfill this commitment,” said Farid. “By porting our software to Windows we have increased the usability of our software, and thus the productivity of the numerous medicinal chemists and computational chemists who prefer the Windows environment. Our upcoming Suite 2009 release will provide our Windows users with our most cohesive and exhaustive molecular modeling platform to date.” "The life sciences vertical is an increasingly important sector for our parallel computing initiative,” said Vince Mendillo, director of HPC marketing at Microsoft. "Scientists worldwide rely on Schrödinger’s software for chemical simulation and molecular modeling. We're excited about having Schrödinger’s suite available on the Windows HPC Server 2008 platform."

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