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*** Breaking News - Next week a Highlight *** - Seminar 3pm-4pm UK Time: Monday 19 October 2015: seminar rooms in University of Manchester; Daresbury Labs (Arkwright room) and RAL labs (S48 in R89) have been booked Video Conferencing Mike Groeber, US Air Force Overview of DREAM.3D “Analysing Data with Ease” [6.2.0 Released] DREAM.3d http://dream3d.bluequartz.net/ an open, extensible software environment to allow integrated processing, characterization and manipulation of microstructure digitally. DREAM.3D is an architecture for computational microstructure tools that allows users to create ‘recipes’ or pipelines for processing digital instances of microstructure. DREAM.3D establishes a robust set of checks and development guidelines to enable singular codes to operate in conjunction, facilitating larger research efforts/goals Software Architecture: DREAM3D is written using many open-source libraries in a layered approach that allows developers and implementors to use just the parts that they want to use. DREAM3D has a robust plugin system where new functionality can be added by developers. The licensing allows for both proprietary and open-source plugins Later in the month there is a more computing oriented seminar that may look at tomographic reconstruction code as an example test case: - 30 October 2015 2pm at RAL (VC to DL) Antoniu Pop, University of Manchester, Programming and Optimizing Task Data-Flow Applications with OpenStream and Aftermath Dynamic task-dependent parallelism is an increasingly popular programming model on shared-memory systems. Compared to data parallel loop-based concurrency, it promises enhanced scalability, load balancing and locality. - If you wish to present/visit pleas email. *** ITEMS *** CCP imaging:- - Developers and Working Group Meetings - Feedback NEEDED: Avizo and new survey - Training courses - Workshops and other events: === - CCP PET-MR developer's workshop. 1. CCP PET-MR Developers Day - University of Leeds, 20 November 2015. Register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ccp-on-pet-mr-software-frameworkdesign-meeting-4-tickets-18974506259 - Working Group Meetings: if you wish to attend (video conferencing may also be possible) or add agenda items please send ([log in to unmask]) CCPi Working Group meeting: Thursday 26 November 2015 at RAL Register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ccpi-working-group-meeting-tickets-19049125447 CCP PET-MR Working Group meeting: for week commencing 9 December TBC - Feedback Needed: 1. Please Vote; if you already or wish to use Avizo (Visualisation software) on an Eduserv license please vote for it to be on the UK Chest agreement: http://www.eduserv.org.uk/services/Chest-Agreements/wishlist or drop Jenny Carrol ([log in to unmask]) This does not commit anyone to anything - so please please vote as more interest will start the process. 2. Start of a new survey - be one of the first: SURVEY: The networks have been asked to fill in a Vis-Needs survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VLFM7XH ONLY 1 PAGE - Please complete. - Courses:- 1. The 3rd UK and Ireland OpenFOAM Ext user day(s) will be held at Daresbury Laboratory in Warrington from the 2nd until the 4th of November. Registrations are open at the following web address: https://eventbooking.stfc.ac.uk/news-events/openfoam-user-meeting 2. Avizo course, Tuesday 3rd November. 20 places available (email [log in to unmask]) with your name and name of organisation. 3rd November, Tuesday 9.30-16.30 Morning session will be held at 3.306 at PSI (Alan Turing Building) Afternoon session will be taken place at Visualisation Area at HMXIF. There is now a course fee : £500 plus VAT for external users who are not students / members of staff at the University of Manchester. - Workshops:- 1. CCP PET-MR funds to sponsor a satellite workshop on Open Source Software for Medical Image Reconstruction at the IEEE Medical Imaging Conference (see http://www.nss-mic.org/2015/public/welcome.asp ), San Diego, California, from October 31st to November 7th; if attending please contact us for details. 2. The third Xradia European Network Workshop is being held in Manchester on 4th-5th November (Barnes Wallis Building). Deadline for registration is 15th October. The conference is to keep yourself updated on the latest technologies/techniques under development by Xradia/Zeiss. Manchester is signed up to the Xradia European Network as an Institution so the conference will be free of charge. Please register using the link below. http://www.zeiss.com/microscopy/en_de/dynamic-content/training-and-education/x-ray-microscopy/2015/3rdxradia-european-network-workshop.html 3. The Industrial Tomography Workshop (into2015) is a scientific conference organized at University of Antwerp, Belgium, on 4-6 November 2015. The event is part of the activities of the MPNS COST Action MP1207: Enhanced X-ray Tomographic Reconstruction: Experiment, Modeling, and Algorithms: http://astra.ua.ac.be/into2015 4. Computing Insight UK 2015 www.stfc.ac.uk/ciuk Computing Insight UK will take place on the 8-9 December at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry – replacing the renowned Machine Evaluation Workshop (MEW). The event will build on the heritage of the MEW and offer you the chance to hear about the latest developments in high performance computing, cloud and data analytics. yours Martin ======= http://tinyurl.com/STFCVis Email Srikanth Nagella ([log in to unmask]), Ron Fowler ([log in to unmask]), Barry Searle ([log in to unmask]), Evgueni Ovtchinnikov ([log in to unmask]) or Martin Turner ([log in to unmask])