Author Archives: Dan Gezelter

Words of Wisdom from a Senior Colleague

I’m done with my general chemistry course for the semester. It has been both a frustrating and rewarding semester. A student’s success in freshman chemistry has more to do with what attitude they bring to the table than it has … Continue reading

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Fast interpolation code?

Here’s a question for everyone who does numerical computation. Has anyone released an open-source 1-d interpolation algorithm with assembly code for the various kinds of processor SIMD extensions (i.e. SSE2, 3DNow, AltiVec)? Most (if not all) scientific codes make repeated … Continue reading

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OpenBugs

Open source software for Bayesian analysis using MCMC: a continuation of the WinBUGS project. Find OpenBugs at: http://www.mathstat.helsinki.fi/openbugs/

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SunlightLB

SunlightLB is an open-source 3D lattice Boltzmann code. It implements a standard lattice Boltzmann algorithm for three dimensional simulations, using a D3Q19 lattice with a twin relaxation time scheme. Objects, possibly moving, are included by a link bounce-back method. This … Continue reading

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Adium X

A brief break from the ongoing discussion to point out Adium X, which is an open source IM tool for Mac OS X. The cool thing about it is that if you happen to have the OS X Equation Service … Continue reading

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Making Money from OpenSource Science Software. III. Sell Services

This is the third post in a series exploring how scientific software companies might be able to make money while still keeping their code open. The previous articles are: How to make money from Open Source scientific software Sell Hardware … Continue reading

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Making Money from OpenSource Science Software. II. Sell Hardware

This is the second post in a series in which I’m trying to figure out a general strategy for developers of open source scientific software to make a living without closing the source to their codes. The canonical examples of … Continue reading

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How to make money from Open Source scientific software

One of my graduate students just got offered a job at computational chemistry software company. I have a lot of respect for this company; they make very good, very fast, and very capable products. They also hire real scientists and … Continue reading

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JSpecView

JSpecView, a Java-based viewer for spectral data in the JCAMP-DX format has just been released under the LGPL license. [tags]spectroscopy, java[/tags]

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JSpecView

JSpecView is a viewer for spectral data in the JCAMP-DX format. Find JSpecView at: http://jspecview.sourceforge.net/

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