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FluoRender 2.15.2 Released
We are pleased to announce the 2.15.2 release of FluoRender. It mainly fixed several issues from the previous versions. Please see the release notes for more details. You can download FluoRender at www.fluorender.org. Chris Johnson to Co-Chair and Host SIAM Computational Science and Engineering Conference
The SIAM Computational Science and Engineering 2015 Conference will be held March 14-18 at the The Calvin L. Rampton Salt Palace Convention Center, 100 S West Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 84101We are expecting more than 1500 attendees. A large number of presentations will be given. See the Conference Program for details.
Both Sides of The Brain
HOW UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH CARE REMAINS AMONG THE NATION'S BEST IN DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION (DBS)From University of Utah Clinical Neurosciences Center Convergence (See page 12)
By Jennifer Dobner
It sounds like something straight from a scene in a science fiction film: Surgery that places a set of wires under the skull so that electrical signals can be transmitted to different areas of the brain. It's called DBS, or deep brain stimulation. And if the idea of it seems a bit wince-inducing or scary, then understanding the power of what it can do - quiet the tremors associated with Parkinson's disease and other brain disorders - will likely wash away any patient's fears.
Uintah 1.6 Released
The Uintah software suite is a set of libraries and applications for simulating and analyzing complex chemical and physical reactions. These reactions are modeled by solving partial differential equations on structured adaptive grids using hundreds to thousands of processors (though smaller simulations may also be run on a scientist's desktop computer). Key software applications have been developed for exploring the fine details of metal containers (encompassing energetic materials) embedded in large hydrocarbon fires. Uintah's underlying technologies have led to novel techniques for understanding large pool eddy fires as well as new methods for simulating fluid-structure interactions. The software is general purpose in nature and the breadth of simulation domains continues to grow beyond the original focus of the C-SAFE initiative.Download Here
FluoRender 2.15.1 Released
We are happy to announce the 2.15.1 release of FluoRender. For details, check the release notes and download FluoRender at www.fluorender.com. FluoRender 2.15 Released
We are happy to announce the 2.15 release of FluoRender. For details, check the release notes and download FluoRender at www.fluorender.com. NVIDIA Center of Excellence Renewed
The NVIDIA Corporation, the worldwide leader in visual computing technologies has renewed the University of Utah's recognition as a CUDA Center of Excellence, a milestone that marks the continuing of a significant partnership, starting in 2008, between the two organizations.NVIDIA® CUDA™ technology is an award-winning C-compiler and software development kit (SDK) for developing computing applications on GPUs. Its inclusion in the University of Utah's curriculum is a clear indicator of the ground-swell that parallel computing using a many-core architecture is having on the high-performance computing industry. One of twenty-two centers, the University of Utah was the second school to be recognized as a CUDA Center of Excellence along with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Over 50 other schools and universities now include CUDA technology as part of their Computer Science curriculum or in their research.
U of U team finishes study of massive, mysterious explosion
(KUTV) A team of researchers from the University of Utah is wrapping up an exhaustive five-year study looking into a mysterious explosion of a semi-truck in Spanish Fork Canyon back in 2005.The truck was packed with 35,000 pounds of mining explosives. It blew up after the truck rolled over, leaving a massive crater, 70-feet wide and 30-feet deep.
There were no fatalities but explosions like the one that happened on Aug. 10, 2005 are extremely rare. But the team of researchers is determined to prevent this type of incident from happening again.
Martin Berzins appointed Member of ASCAC
Martin Berzins has been appointed a member of the Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC). The committee provides advice and recommendations on scientific, technical, and programmatic issues relating to the ASCAC Program.The Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC), established on August 12, 1999, provides valuable, independent advice to the Department of Energy on a variety of complex scientific and technical issues related to its Advanced Scientific Computing Research program.
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Now Available: Spatio-temporal Image Analysis for Longitudinal and Time-Series Image Data
S. Durrleman, P.T. Fletcher, G. Gerig, M. Niethammer, X. Pennec (Eds.)Third International Workshop, STIA 2014, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2014, Boston, MA, USA, September 18, 2014, Revised Selected Papers
Series: Image Processing, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Graphics, Vol. 8682, Springer LNCS
Simulations Aimed at Safer Transport of Explosives
Credit: Jim Collins - Argonne Leadership Computing FacilitySee original article: "Simulations Aimed at Safer Transport of Explosives"
In 2005, a semi-truck hauling 35,000 pounds of explosives through the Spanish Fork Canyon in Utah crashed and caught fire, causing a dramatic explosion that left a 30-by-70-foot crater in the highway.
Fortunately, there were no fatalities. With about three minutes between the crash and the explosion, the driver and other motorists had time to flee. Some injuries did occur, however, as the explosion sent debris flying in all directions and produced a shock wave that blew out nearby car windows.