Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!agate!linus!linus!sdl From: sdl@linus.mitre.org (Steven D. Litvinchouk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Scientific programs on Amiga Message-ID: Date: 2 Oct 90 14:36:33 GMT References: <1990Sep29.021658.26896@evax.arl.utexas.edu> <6669@uwm.edu> <90273.104606UH2@psuvm.psu.edu> Sender: usenet@linus.mitre.org Organization: The Mitre Corporation, Bedford, MA Lines: 49 In-reply-to: UH2@psuvm.psu.edu's message of 30 Sep 90 14:46:06 GMT In article <90273.104606UH2@psuvm.psu.edu> UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer) writes: > Here's a different slant on the lack of Scientific Software on here>. The Unix community, and to a lesser extent the general Comp Sci > community have a tradition developed over the past 20 years of sharing > locally developed software.... > > On the other hand, this tradition is very rare in the sciences and engineering. > When some scientist develops a program that allows a user to view a data cloud > in N-dimensions, the *last* thing that occurs to him or her is to go on and > add a user interface and write a manual, and so on. However, there is a lot of scientific/mathematical software whose development was paid for by the government. Much of this software (including source) can be had for a nominal fee, and ported to other machines. Good sources include: NASA's "COSMIC" catalog, and all the government laboratories. Which brings me to one package I'd be interested in seeing run on the Amiga: The "APE 2.0" scientific visualization toolkit. Developed at the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), it supports graphical visualization of N-dimensional data sets for such applications as fluid dynamics, etc. A visual programming paradigm lets the user invoke various filters and graphical rendering tools by connecting icons graphically. APE 2.0 is available from the OSC for $75. It currently runs on Unix platforms, so porting to Amiga Unix should be no problem. It might even be portable to AmigaDOS (as other Unix programs have been). Steven Litvintchouk MITRE Corporation Burlington Road Bedford, MA 01730 (617)271-7753 ARPA: sdl@mbunix.mitre.org UUCP: ...{att,decvax,genrad,necntc,ll-xn,philabs,utzoo}!linus!sdl "Where does he get those wonderful toys?" -- Steven Litvintchouk MITRE Corporation Burlington Road Bedford, MA 01730 (617)271-7753 ARPA: sdl@mbunix.mitre.org UUCP: ...{att,decvax,genrad,necntc,ll-xn,philabs,utzoo}!linus!sdl "Where does he get those wonderful toys?"