Microsoft Enters Supercomputing With Institutes at 10 Universities

In its first major foray into academic supercomputing, the Microsoft Corporation announced last week that it would pay for new Institutes for High-Performance Computing at 10 universities around the world.

Bill Gates, the company's chairman and chief software architect, told a supercomputing conference in Seattle that joint research projects at the institutes would help guide software research and development at Microsoft. The institutes will help Microsoft understand researchers'

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