Free Simulation Tools

GFRD (Green's Function Reaction Dynamics) decomposes the many-body reaction-diffusion problem into one- and two-body problems that can be solved analytically using Green’s Function, and uses these functions to set up an event-driven algorithm.  Find it @ http://gfrd.org

MesoRD (Mesoscopic Reaction Diffusion Simulator) is a tool for stochastic simulation of reactions and diffusion. In particular, it is an implementation of the Next Subvolume Method, which is an exact method to simulate the Markov process corresponding to the reaction-diffusion master equation.  Find it @ http://mesord.sourceforge.net/

Smoldyn is a computer program for cell-scale biochemical simulations. It simulates each molecule of interest individually to capture natural stochasticity and to yield nanometer-scale spatial resolution.  Find it @ http://www.smoldyn.org/

3-D Printing Revolution in Military Logistics

http://www.acus.org/new_atlanticist/3-d-printing-revolution-military-logistics

Amazon RedShift Price Structure

http://aws.amazon.com/redshift/ 

Six free databases

From the Network World:

http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2012/120312-databases-test-263922.html

Do engineers need an MBA?

From the EE Times:

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-blogs/academic-antics/4396336/Do-engineers-need-an-MBA-

Old Tires Art

ARART

Computation meets Art:

http://arart.info/

Free Database Visualization Tool

A good free tool:

http://www.dbvis.com/

TinyDuino and Parallella

If you are interested in embedded development and do-it-yourself projects, take a look at this recent column by Mark Gibbs (Gear-head column in Network World) @

http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2012/100812-gearhead.html

The Tomorrow Project

Check out the Tomorrow Project and he anthology of Science-Fiction stories there- available as a free download:

http://uk.tomorrow-projects.com/2012/09/the-tomorrow-project-anthology-imagining-the-future-and-building-it/

BigHouse Simulator

BigHouse is a simulation infrastructure for data center systems to help understand issues such as performance, power management, and fault tolerance.   Freely available @ http://www.eecs.umich.edu/BigHouse/ 

The paper is @ http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~twenisch/papers/ispass12.pdf 

Screw Art

Once Again: Creativity is Everything!

2012 Redmond Channel Partner Salary Survey

From the Redmond Channel Partner magazine:

"By all accounts, the market for technical employees is tight. Even as national unemployment remains high, partners across the country report low tech unemployment and intense competition for talent."

Simulating Cells

This is a computer model of a bacterium which accounts for gene function and predicts unexpected emergent properties.  The paper may be found @ http://covertlab.stanford.edu/publicationpdfs/mgenitalium_whole_cell_2012_07_20.pdf

Beautiful Birds

Large Collection of Free Microsoft eBooks

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mssmallbiz/archive/2012/07/27/large-collection-of-free-microsoft-ebooks-for-you-including-sharepoint-visual-studio-windows-phone-windows-8-office-365-office-2010-sql-server-2012-azure-and-more.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mssmallbiz/archive/2012/07/30/another-large-collection-of-free-microsoft-ebooks-and-resource-kits-for-you-including-sharepoint-2013-office-2013-office-365-duet-2-0-azure-cloud-windows-phone-lync-dynamics-crm-and-more.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0

Cyber Offense is King

From the Atlantic Council

http://www.acus.org/new_atlanticist/cyber-offense-king

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