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Tuesday, February 24, 2004
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Today I got a Mac OS X version of the multiphysical modeling software Elmer 3.0. This is a prerelease version, but seems to work ok. Here is a description of the software: "Elmer includes physical models of fluid dynamics, structural mechanics, electromagnetics and heat transfer. These are described by partial differential equations which Elmer solves by the Finite Element Method (FEM)." The Elmer software is available free of charge to academic users. There are a lot of examples on the Elmer web site. Linux and Windows versions are available for download on the net. The Mac OS X version is not yet available, have to test it first.
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Wee 'Wetsuits' Are Big Advance for Microscopy: "To protect the water in the biological samples from boiling explosively under the vacuum, the researchers encased the samples in a thin polymer membrane. This [OE]wetsuit[base '] is invisible to the electron beam but is tough enough to withstand atmospheric pressure differences and protect its contents." [Scientific American]
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"Hey, Gang, Let's Make Our Own Supercomputer": "University of San Francisco students will gather in a gym to lash together about 1,000 computers into a shared high-speed network that can handle the benchmark program, a bunch of equations that can be parsed and computed on numerous processors concurrently."
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