2006 Applications news
ACD/Labs provides free academic licences
19 December 2006
Rice University is the most recent recipient of a site license for ACD/Labs’ ACD/ChemSketch, giving staff and students access to an advanced chemical tool for drawing and naming structures.
High performance computers design futuristic military vehicles
19 December 2006
Interactive Supercomputing’s software will help the US Army and vehicle designers to evaluate the performance of next-generation military vehicles using supercomputers to dramatically accelerate simulation of the vehicles’ operations.
Large Mexican contract for Thermo Fisher Scientific
18 December 2006
Pemex Gas and Basic Petrochemical (PGBP), a subsidiary of the largest company in Mexico, has standardised its laboratory automation by deploying Thermo Scientific’s CDS LIMS software.
NCAS employs CD-adapco products in 5-day air forecasting
11 December 2006
CD-adapco and NCAS have agreed partnership terms that will lead to an urban scale weather modelling code. The prediction methodology is hoped to enable five-day forecasting of urban air quality.
NIST maths technique opens clearer window on universe
11 December 2006
A fast and efficient image enhancement technique developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has proven itself to be effective in both microscopic and telescopic applications.
UK national biobank employs LabVantage’s software
30 November 2006
onCore UK has licensed LabVantage’s Sapphire BioBanking Solution to support the launch of its ambitious large scale operational cancer biobank. The biobank is a national biosample resource for cancer researchers.
Planners can play 'SimCity' for real
23 November 2006
Social policy makers and town planners will soon be able to play ‘SimCity’ for real using grid computing and e-Science techniques to test the consequences of their policies.
Scientists use virtual reality to ease amputees’ pain
14 November 2006
Scientists at The University of Manchester are using 3D computer graphics to combat the pain suffered by amputees, by giving the illusion the limb is still there.
Modelling gives insight into traumatic brain injury
9 November 2006
Computer modelling has shown that brain injury may occur within a millisecond after someone's head hits the windscreen in a car accident.
Second consecutive win for CD-adapco aided F1 team
2 November 2006
Fernando Alonso of the Renault F1 Team won his second successive FIA Formula One Drivers’ World Championship, thanks to an excellent engine designed using CD-adapco’s computational fluid dynamics software.
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Audi employ LMS Test.Lab
25 October 2006
Pesticide detection using deconvolution software
24 October 2006
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