If you are simply not satisfied with the current state of aerodynamic wheels, frames, bars and seat posts, and would like to take a crack at designing your own, NASA has got the toy for you.
"TetrUSS is used in aerodynamics and fluid dynamics analysis, and has been used on major projects including High Speed Research / High Speed Civil Transport, Hyper-X, Abrupt Wing Stall, Mars Scout, Joint Strike Fighter and more. What’s more, the software has been used in the civilian aerospace industry, academy, automotive, biomedical and civil engineering fields.
NASA research scientists and the Air Force Research Laboratory developed TetrUSS for their own use, and it has evolved into an unstructured-grid flow analysis and design Computation Fluid Dynamic (CFD) software system. It’s available free of charge to U.S. entities, citizens and permanent residents. A free training course is even available at NASA Langley Research Center, as well."
I wonder what it was ported from? There seems to be little mention of the OS it came from… I figure it must be a UNIX flavor. I wonder if they provide source that is buildable to Linux?
Since OS X is based on Unix it would make sense that was the case. It doesn’t matter though, finally us MAC people have some software which should make at least some of the PC folks jealous (the geeks).
Fast MAC? have you tried out the dual processor G4s? I mean heavy tasks like video rendering are done in seconds… smoking… never seen a PC do that kind of crunching… have seen an SGI do it though… but SGIs also cost 5 times as much.
Besides if you have worked on OSX, the stability is incredible. in 1.5 year 0 crashes and this is after really pushing my computer with multiple things open…
Speed is not just how fast a computer does something it also includes the down time rebotting your computer, recovering your documents, redoing things. etc…
I agree I am under no illusion that Aplle puts out Perfect machines… there always seem to be weird srchitectual things like that… I mean it took them a while to support DDR ram nad what is the point of using it if you are not going to use it to its full potential…
Sigh… now if I could only afford one a dual 1.4… until then I would love to talk about why I shouldn’t get one…
Back in my previous life I patiently waited for the arrival of the next generation CPU from Motorola… I so desired a killer laptop to take care of all my music production needs… especially for super heavy DSP usage… and I can’t say enough good things about how smart Apple was to build their OS on a UNIX kernel, brilliant. I’m still waiting for those screaming fast laptops…
not screaming fast, but i have a cheap ($1500) 14" G3 800mhz, it photoshops close to as fast as my G4 800mhz tower. i wish my 2 ghz windows was as fast as either of my 800mhz macs.
OS X works fine on the iBooks, you just need memory - 512 will do fine. I work with a guy who has it running on the 600Mhz iBook with no problems. I also have it running on my old iMac and it is nominally slower than OS 9, but is so much better designed that is is just a dream to work with.
I don’t know if OS X actually makes you swim, bike or run faster, but I suspect it does not (just felt we should get back to the Triathlon stuff…).
