[ale] ALE-NW meeting...

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Dow,

I am sorry to hear that your wife's aunt is have problems.  I will pray for
her quick and full recovery.  Every was cool at the meeting!

-Rob


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dow Hurst" <dhurst at kennesaw.edu>
To: ale at ale.org
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: [ale] ALE-NW meeting...


> 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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