[ale] ALE-NW meeting...

[Dow Hurst]

I am sorry I couldn't come either.  We found out that one of my wife's 
aunt's has leukemia yesterday.  I was wondering if any refreshments were 
brought or provided?  If not, I apologize for not taking care of that.  
However, it is nice to see that the meeting went well without either 
Geoffrey or myself in attendance.  I think we have a critical mass 
achieved and can focus on just providing quality talks on a monthly basis.

On the Linux side of things:
I have the chemistry modelling software Macromodel for 
www.schrodinger.com running on my SuSE box at home.  It takes advantage 
of the OpenGL acceleration and looks absolutely beautiful.  I don't need 
an SGI anymore!  You can model proteins, nucleotides, and small organics 
in this software.  I have a permanent license so might could demo this 
sometime at a meeting.

Also, the modelling software from www.wavefun.com called Spartan is also 
running in the same way and looks great.  This software is used to do 
many different types of calculations on molecules such as abinitio, 
semi-empirical, and molecular mechanics.  It is used alot in University 
level organic chemistry courses on Win9x machines and in academic 
research on Unix machines.  The Spartan Linux version came out last year 
and I just got a 3 month demo license.

Macromodel is about $1000 per workstation or $3000 per departmental 
license for education.
Spartan is about $1500 per workstation and multiple licenses gain 
discounts but $1500 is an educational license.

This is mainstream chemistry modelling software with Linux versions that 
run as well as the high end Unix workstation versions.  A pharmaceutical 
company would pay 10 times this much per license and glady do it to have 
the functionality.  It is great to finally see Linux breaking into this 
market where either Unix or Windows dominated.  People would have a SGI 
and a Windows PC in their office while now they only need a Linux based PC.
Dow


Geoffrey wrote:

> Well, a last minute mini-crisis prevented me from attending the 
> meeting last night.  I'd like to get feedback on how it went.
>
> How many folks showed?  How'd it go?
>

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