Hello!
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:
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 (
http://www.nanoengineer-1.com/). 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 (
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/nspr/), 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
Visit
http://www.nano-hive.org/ to learn more. Nano-Hive's open source development and distributions are hosted at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/nano-hive/
Thank-you,
--Brian.
Brian Helfrich
Nano-Hive Team
helfrich@nano-hive.org
www.nano-hive.org
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