Special Day-After-Christmas Edition. (Shouldn’t you all be out returning unwanted gifts or spending gift cards or returning unwanted gift cards?)

• CFD helped sell server cabinets for a large telecom data center.
• Siemens PLM released Parasolid v27.1 including improvements in surfacing and blending.
• Ten Tech and Rescale team up to deliver ITAR supercomputing in the cloud.
• The 2015 International Workshop on Software Engineering for High Performance Computing (SE4HPCS’15) will be held 19 May 2015 in Firenze, Italy. Papers should be submitted by 23 Jan 2015 for consideration.
• When will we have exascale computing? According to IEEE Spectrum, it’ll be 2023 assuming we can solve problems related to CPU usage, power usage, and software development. Also, could you handle a mean time between failures of 30 minutes?
• Voro++ is free, open source software from  the U.S. DoE for working with 3D Voronoi tessellations.
• Intelligent Light released FieldView 15 for CFD visualization and postprocessing.
• Lots of stuff to read on the blog Physics-Based Animation.
• What motivates software developers? Autonomy, mastery, and purpose.
• User presentations from the COMSOL Conference 2014 are now available online.
• Business Week shares this photo essay on 75 Years of Cutting Edge NASA Research.
• MSC Software honored three of their own as MSC Technical Fellows.
• ESI delivered Visual-Environment 10.0 for OpenFOAM. You can read more about it at ENGINEERING.com.
• Next Limit released RealFlow RenderKit 2014.
• CFD is being used to predict rupture of intracranial aneurysms.

KNiTT is an audio/video installation by Candas Sisman parts of which looks like you’re swimming through a mesh. Image from csismn.com. Click image for article.