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Author Archives: Dan Gezelter
Machine learning open source software
Cheng Soon Ong just emailed me about mloss.org, a community creating a comprehensive open source machine learning environment. Mloss.org is essentially a community portal with lots of detailed information about each of the listed projects. One of the more interesting … Continue reading
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Scientific Software Wants To Be Free
Go read this wonderful manifesto over at arXiv: Astronomical Software Wants To Be Free: A Manifesto by Weiner et al. The authors talk about some of the barriers to astronimical software development that are true in all scientific fields. The … Continue reading
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meep
meep is a free finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulation software package developed at MIT to model electromagnetic systems. Find meep at: http://ab-initio.mit.edu/meep/
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CAMFR
CAMFR (CAvity Modelling FRamework) is a fast, flexible, friendly full-vectorial Maxwell solver. Its main focus is on applications in the field of nanophotonics, like wavelength-scale microstructures, lasers and light-emitting diodes. Find CAMFR at: http://camfr.sourceforge.net/
Posted in Optics
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LaserFOAM
Solves the Nonlinear Schrdinger equation using the split-step Fourier method in order to simulate the propagation of an ultrashort laser pulse in photonic crystal fibers. Find LaserFOAM at: http://laserfoam.sourceforge.net/
Posted in Optics
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ApexKB (formerly Jumper)
ApexKB is enterprise web-infrastructure for data virtualization. ApexKB lets you search and share high-value data across remote locations using tag metadata to capture knowledge about data in remote data stores. It collects these meta-tag profiles in a Knowledge base and … Continue reading
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JPIV Particle Image Velocimetry
JPIV is a software package for Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV). The program is open source and platform independent. Find JPIV Particle Image Velocimetry at: http://www.jpiv.vennemann-online.de/
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LOPTI is mathematical optimization open source C++ library (mostly derivative-free)
There are three major parts. 1st and main part is solver-driver which either wraps external solver or uses LOPTI native solvers and presents to library user consistent and simple optimization API. 2nd part is collection of solvers. Currently 4 solvers … Continue reading
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Aciqra
Aciqra is an open source virtual planetarium which tracks the locations of planets, the sun and moon along with Earth’s shadow and displays the phases of the moon and planets in realtime. The program also includes several widgets which give … Continue reading
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xeo
xeo is a free (GPL) open project management for nanostructures using Java Find xeo at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xeo
Posted in Chemical Information
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