Posted on Thursday, December 29 2005 @ 20:20:15 CET by LSDsmurf
We're happy to announce that Nano-Hive version 1.2.0 Beta 1 for win32-x86 is now
available for download. *nix distros will be made available in the coming weeks.
The main feature of this beta release is that Nano-Hive is now fully
distributable across computing networks (DC). Note that this release is not the
@home-style DC client - that client, based on the BOINC
(http://boinc.berkeley.edu/) platform, will be made available early 2006 - this
release is mainly for dedicated DC networks.
Other features of this release include:
SocketsPIC_Control - This Distributed PIC Control plugin controls slave
Nano-Hive instances via sockets, and transfers work units to/from them via
FTP, or NFS.
AIREBO - This Physical Interaction plugin employs the Adaptive
Intermolecular Reactive Empirical Bond Order (AIREBO) potential is an
extension of the REBO potential (used by the REBO_MBM plugin) that adds
non-bonded intermolecular interactions, and four-body torsional interaction.
nanorexMMP_ImportExport - This Data Import/Export plugin handles
nanoENGINEER-1's MMP
file format. Along with this, the mmpShaft atom set type was introduced,
allowing nE-1 users to easily specify atom sets for use with Nano-Hive.
Added linear force and rotary force activators to the pathing system.
These new activators provide a more realistic way to activate molecular
machines than the original constant velocity pathing mechanism (which still
has great value and still exists.)
Added the BoxedSet simulation specification atom set descriptor for use in
pathing atoms and molecules. With this descriptor, the user can simply
specify two opposite points of a box and all the atoms inside become an atom
set.
Switched threading, sockets, and mutexes from the Common C++ library to
the Netscape
Portable Runtime (NSPR) library, and added a homegrown StringTokenizer
class.
Alpha 4 of the HiveKeeper Graphical User Interface for Nano-Hive is
included with this release. The new capabilities of this alpha version
include:
Support for multiple local and remote Nano-Hive (N-H) instances
A simulation summary tab for each N-H instance
A Physical Interaction Calculator (PIC), ie, N-H slave instances
summary tab for each DC network
A visualization recenter macro, vdW representation, and variable
playback speed for the simulation visualization frame
Program Information Category:
Tools and Utilities Type:
Free Version: 1.2.0 beta 1 Size: 12.4MB Works on: Windows and others
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