Microsoft and Scientific Desktop

"Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server (CCS) 2003 is a new HPC [high-performance computing] operating system specifically designed for group and departmental-level deployment. CCS contains everything you need to deploy a Windows-based cluster quickly and easily, even if you're not an HPC expert. Combined with the scientific resources available through iNquiry, CCS provides a powerful and scalable HPC platform for bioinformatics researchers, that installs rapidly and is easy to use." via the BioTeam

For more on this check Dan Fay