In fact, their motivations are perfectly aligned with ours?that is, as broad a penetration as possible.
Our focus is not on the very highest-end systems but on divisional and departmental computing systems.
The centers we chose have a unique blend of expertise as they do research in HPC systems and, in many cases, are closely affiliated with a HPC center, giving them a unique insight from both a scientific and industry perspective on what will actually help solve real problems.
We expect our customers to start pre-production deployment evaluations of the product with this beta.
We understand that the availability of 64-bit applications from software vendors such as ESI is critical in helping our mainstream customers be able to easily deploy, manage, and use Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003.