Nanorex acquires Nano-Hive, adding distributed computing and advanced simulation capability to its molecular engineering platform


I wanted to make sure you saw this news item about molecular simulation
software maker Nanorex acquiring Nano-Hive, developer of a powerful
open source tool that speeds up nanoscale simulation through
distributed computing. Together, Nanorex's NanoEngineer-1 and the
renamed NanoHive-1 are going to produce faster, better-quality
animations.

Researchers and instructors working with current simulation
technologies can tell you how frustrating it is to wait hours or days
for a nanoscale simulation program to perform all the necessary
calculations. Nanorex's acquisition of NanoHive promises to
turbo-charge that process.

The news release can be found at this URL:
http://www.nanoengineer-1.com/mambo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=122&Itemid=1

If you want some illustrations you won't find in the press release,
take a look at this link
http://www.nanoengineer-1.com/mambo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=101&Itemid=69

This is the result of work done by Nanorex CEO Mark Sims earlier this
year. Sims used NanoHive-1 to give NanoEngineer-1 the ability to
visualize the electrostatic potential (ESP) of molecular devices, and
then calculated the ESP of a small nanomechanical bearing. To
understand a molecular device's ESP is to know its potential to
"push" or "pull" other charged objects. But to model ESP on
such a tiny scale takes quantum mechanical calculations that
NanoEngineer-1 could not perform without the help of NanoHive-1.

Another example of the kind of power unleashed by NanoHive-1 can be
found in this video:
http://www.nanoengineer-1.com/nh1/videos/dc-cnt1.mpg

This one was produced by Nano-Hive founder Brian Helfrich last year as
a demonstration of distributed computing mechanisms. It simulates three
carbon nanotubes being pushed on by a diamondoid carbon "knife."
Did the knife cut through the tough tubes? Watch the simulation and
find out.


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