(An abbreviated version.)
News in Brief
- Students from the University of Texas at Austin won the Student Cluster Challenge at SC12.
- Read more about the STAR Global Conference 2013 at their dedicated website.
- Evan Yares wrote a nice article about CAD interoperability for Design World.
- ERCOFTAC presents Transition Modelling II on 22-23 May 2013 in Munich.
- The 7th MIT Conference on Fluid and Solid Mechanics will be held 12-14 June 2013 in Cambridge, MA.
- If you want to put a storage bag on your bicycle, XLAB has studied them using CFD.
- Siemens PLM released Parasolid V25.0.
- Exa released PowerDELTA v1.7 for meshing.
- Speaking of Exa, they reported “cautious” year-end spending by their customers and other economic details.
- AIAA announced the 2013 Associate Fellows.
- CEI released EnSight 10.0.2h.
- CD-adapco announced on Facebook the winners of their 2013 calendar contest.

Winning image of CD-adapco’s 2013 calendar contest
John, besides Pointwise and Gridgen, which are your favorite CAE and normal tools, scripts and setup? are there any pointwise built-in tools that you could talk about? Something like http://usesthis.com/?
Finally, are you a mac, windows guy? … or a *nix head?
Cesar, that’s a great idea for a post. Let me think about it.
The quick answer to your question is that I’m currently a Windows guy and have been for many years now. I had a Mac on my desk for about 2 years and found it a little frustrating to use. However, so that I can retain my street cred, I’m a Unix guy from way back having started with IRIX, then used AIX for several years and even Dec’s Tru64 for a time.
I am an ardent vi/vim user.