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 New CTC Corporate Partner to Parallelize Quantum Chemistry Software Suite
 For Immediate Release
 February 7, 1996
 Ithaca, NY-Schrödinger, Inc., of Pasadena, California, has joined the
 Cornell Theory Center's (CTC) Corporate Partnership Program to develop a
 parallelized version of its quantum chemistry software suite for scalable
 computing architectures.
 "Access to the Theory Center's corporate program will help Schrödinger
 deliver a parallelized version of PS-GVB quantum chemistry software to the
 U.S. research community faster and more efficiently," explained
 Schrödinger
 president, Murco Ringnalda. "Researchers in both industry and education are
 excited about the prospect of seeing the duration of their quantum
 chemistry calculations reduced from one week to less than one day."
 Timely and accurate calculations of realistic molecular systems require
 fast computer execution speeds and highly efficient software. Scalably
 parallel computing architectures, such as the IBM RS/6000 SP, use
 standardized components that are designed to maintain performance as they
 scale from a few to dozens or even hundreds of processors.
 Schrödinger is committed to the development of highly refined and efficient
 software to solve electronic structure problems. In recent years,
 Schrödinger has developed new approaches to solving ab initio electronic
 structure equations that involve pseudospectral methods. These new
 algorithms are now available in Schrödinger's PS-GVB software suite.
 "The Cornell Theory Center is eager to accelerate the development of robust
 parallel applications for the high performance computing market,"
 emphasized Peter M. Siegel, director of the Corporate Partnership Program.
 "Our partnership with Schrödinger is an important example of our work
 with
 software developers; other software partners and users include ADAPCO,
 BIOSYM, Candle Corporation, GrammaTech, MathWorks, and Ronin Systems."
 Companies interested in accessing CTC's IBM and Silicon Graphics computing
 environment should contact Paul Redfern at red (+ at +) tc.cornell.edu for more
 information.
 CTC, one of four high performance computing and communications centers
 supported by the National Science Foundation, operates the world's largest
 IBM SP system. Activities of CTC are also funded by New York State, the
 Advanced Research Projects Agency, the National Center for Research
 Resources at the National Institutes of Health, IBM, and other members of
 CTC's Corporate Partnership Program.
 For more information, contact Linda Callahan, Director of External
 Relations, Cornell Theory Center:
 e-mail: cal (+ at +) tc.cornell.edu
 phone: 607-254-8610
 fax: 607-254-8888
 http://www.tc.cornell.edu/
 For information about Schrödinger, Inc., contact Murco Ringnalda:
 e-mail: info (+ at +) psgvb.com
 phone: 818-568-9392 or 800-20-PS-GVB
 fax: 818-568-9778
 http://www.psgvb.com
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