Nano-Hive 1.2.0 beta 1

Posted on Thursday, December 29 2005 @ 20:20 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


Product page: here

Download: Nano-Hive 1.2.0 beta 1



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