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Fluid Dynamics

Posted on April 10, 2005 by Dan Gezelter

The OpenFOAM (Field Operation and Manipulation) software package can simulate anything from complex fluid flows involving chemical reactions, turbulence and heat transfer, to solid dynamics, electromagnetics and the pricing of financial options.
Find Fluid Dynamics at: http://www.opencfd.co.uk/openfoam/

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Genomorama

Posted on March 14, 2005 by Dan Gezelter

Genomorama is a software program for interactively displaying multiple genomes. It provides a powerful yet easy to use interface that leverages the visualization power of modern computers (via OpenGL) and the substantial bioinformatic infrastructure provided by the NCBI (via the NCBI C toolkit). Genomorama is written in portable, highly optimized C++ and comes in three "flavors" that allow it to run natively on (most) modern operating systems: OS X (using Carbon), Microsoft Windows (using MFC) and Linux (using Motif). Executables and source code are freely provided for all flavors.
Find Genomorama at: http://public.lanl.gov/jgans/genomorama/genomorama_doc.html

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OpenFOAM and QtiPlot

Posted on March 8, 2005 by Dan Gezelter

OpenFOAM looks like a neat project in the Fluid Dynamics section. We also just found out about a new Qt interface for gnuplot that goes by the name QtiPlot. Anything that makes gnuplot friendlier is a good thing (in our opinions, of course.)

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OpenFOAM

Posted on March 8, 2005 by Dan Gezelter

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QtiPlot

Posted on March 6, 2005 by Dan Gezelter

From the website:"As a scientist I often need to use data analysis and plotting software. One of the best scientific software I’ve ever seen is Gnuplot. It has the advantage of being free, but every one who has ever used it must admit that Gnuplot is not very user friendly. Of course there are front ends to Gnuplot, which could be a solution… On Windows systems there is a well known and widely used software called Origin, which is not free, of course. My purpose was to develop a free, portable clone of Origin. The result is still far away from it’s model, but there’s a "wish to" list which I’m constantly working on. All suggestions and contributions are most welcome!"
Find QtiPlot at: http://soft.proindependent.com/qtiplot.html

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Archaeology! Parallel Computing! Molecular Dynamics!

Posted on March 3, 2005 by Dan Gezelter

A bunch of new links today. In the Anthropology and Archaeology section, we’ve got two brand-new links. One is for a site specializing in Open Source in Archaeology, the other is for Walldrawer, a tool for producing scaled, rectified drawings from digital photos.

We’ve also got a new link to Protomol in our Theoretical and Computational Chemistry section, and one to PVM in our Data Communication section.

There’s a new entry in Statistics today also. Vista looks like a cool new visual statistics system.

Keep those links rolling in!

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Internet and Open Source in Archaeology

Posted on February 28, 2005 by Dan Gezelter

The goal of this site is to promote the use of open source software and open stardards in archaeological computing.
Find Internet and Open Source in Archaeology at: http://www.iosa.it

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Walldrawer

Posted on February 23, 2005 by Dan Gezelter

Walldrawer – an easy alternative to on-site wall drawing for archaeology. This software aims at putting together the tools needed to produce scaled, rectified, drawing-like pictures from digital photographs in archaeological excavations. This software was developed in Java using Java Advanced Imaging toolkit, but at the moment development is stopped. Functionality is not 100% however try using it, it is worth.
Find Walldrawer at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/walldrawer

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Vista, the Visual Statistics System (using XlispStat)

Posted on February 18, 2005 by Dan Gezelter

ViSta, the Visual Statistics System, features statistical visualizations that are highly dynamic and very interactive. Dynamic, High-Interaction, Multi-View Graphics: ViSta constructs very-high-interaction, dynamic graphics that show you multiple views of your data simultaneously. The graphics are designed to augment your visual intuition so that you can better understand your data. ViSta is written in Lisp, using the XLispStat extensions for statistical software development. The system is completely open and extensible. The Lisp programmer can add whatever capabilities are desired.
Find Vista, the Visual Statistics System (using XlispStat) at: http://forrest.psych.unc.edu/research/vista-frames/abstract.html

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PVM: Parallel Virtual Machine

Posted on February 18, 2005 by Dan Gezelter

PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) is a software package that permits a heterogeneous collection of Unix and/or Windows computers hooked together by a network to be used as a single large parallel computer. Thus large computational problems can be solved more cost effectively by using the aggregate power and memory of many computers. The software is very portable. The source, which is available free thru netlib, has been compiled on everything from laptops to CRAYs. PVM enables users to exploit their existing computer hardware to solve much larger problems at minimal additional cost. Hundreds of sites around the world are using PVM to solve important scientific, industrial, and medical problems in addition to PVM’s use as an educational tool to teach parallel programming. With tens of thousands of users, PVM has become the de facto standard for distributed computing world-wide.
Find PVM: Parallel Virtual Machine at: http://www.csm.ornl.gov/pvm/

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