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TROY, Mich., Sept. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Altair Engineering, Inc., a leading global provider of simulation technology and engineering services, today announced the release of the HyperWorks 11.0 Student Edition, a personal academic version of the popular suite of computer-aided engineering (CAE) software used by manufacturers around the world. The Student Edition offers affordable opportunities for engineering and design students to gain experience in computer simulation with the same...

  Scripps researcher adapts global climate model to improve regional predictions "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows," Bob Dylan famously sang. But if you want to know how it will blow tomorrow, odds are you're going to check the forecast. Atmospheric prediction has improved immeasurably in the 45 years since Dylan sang "Subterranean Homesick Blues." Whether you're interested in tomorrow's high or the global heat index a decade from now, forecasters can now...

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., Sept. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- FireScope Inc., the leader in aligning customers' technology performance to their business and customer experiences, today announced the release of its Data Center Visualization capability, enabling customers to quickly and effortlessly map and visualize their physical and virtual elements from service to rack. Rapid scaling of infrastructure resources and adoption of virtualization and cloud technologies has introduced new challenges...

  Scientists think that they will be able to predict the weather down to an area of a few kilometers accurately, but they need more computing power in order to calculate the climate models. According to Reuters, a climate model is a computer-based version of the Earth’s climate system, based on physics and complex equations. These models can be used for weather forecasting, understanding the climate and projecting climate change. Alan Thorpe, director general of the UK-based...

TROY, Mich., Aug. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Altair Engineering, Inc., a leading global provider of simulation technology and engineering services, today announced that it has completed an agreement with Intelligent Light, to integrate the full version of Intelligent Light's FieldView 13 post-processor directly into Altair's AcuSolve computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solution. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110831/DE57398 ) This agreement demonstrates Altair's commitment to...

GREENBELT, Md., July 26, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA satellites beam data from space; now the Agency is beaming it straight to your iPad. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Software and media specialists at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., today released a new iPad app -- the NASA Visualization Explorer -- that allows users to easily interact with extraordinary images, video, and information about NASA's latest Earth science...

Grad student leverages supercomputer to fine-tune aerodynamicsBuilding a battery-powered land speed vehicle capable of achieving a speed of 400+ miles per hour requires innovative components, corporate partnerships, hours of diligent preparation and a powerful supercomputer.A team of engineering students at The Ohio State University's (OSU) Center for Automotive Research (CAR) recently began running aerodynamics simulations at the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), one of the first steps in the...

SEATTLE, July 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Tableau Software released its quarterly publication of the top 100 visualizations for Tableau Public for Q2 2011. These are ranked by viewing sessions and online interactions and show trends across the group. The most-visited new visualization was published on the Huffington Post and showed irregularities in voter turnout in a controversial Wisconsin election. The #2 went to Daily Kos for a viz showing the rise and ebb in President Obama's poll numbers...

Remcom announces a new version of its electromagnetic simulation software, XFdtd® Release 7 (XF7), updating the product to Release 7.2.1. Notable new features include a standard materials database which is included with the XFdtd installation and the ability to combine SAR results from multiple sources. State College, PA (PRWEB) July 19, 2011 Remcom announces a new version of its electromagnetic simulation software, XFdtd® Release 7 (XF7), updating the product to Release 7.2.1....

GeoToolkitâ„¢ is a cross-platform C++ library of components that permit developers to fast-track their development of Oil and Gas E&P applications in Windows or Linux. Versions are also available for Java and C#/.NET. Houston, TX (PRWEB) July 12, 2011 Interactive Network Technologies, Inc. (INT), a leading developer of high performance graphics components, announces availability of GeoToolkit 4.2. Developed for data visualization in upstream Oil and Gas, GeoToolkit is a package...