[ale] ALE-NW meeting...

[Geoffrey]

Dow Hurst wrote:
> 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.

Sorry to hear of the family crisis, thoughts and prayers to you, your 
wife and her aunt.

Agreed, thanks again to Fulton for picking up my dropped pieces.  Dow 
and I talked about 1 hour before the meeting and I knew he couldn't make 
it, but at that time was still planning on being there.

> 
> 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.

Cool, I'm thinking of next month?  If it's not a full meetings worth, we 
got a couple of folks who have offered to do mini-presentations, we 
could leverage.  Let me know if you're ready?? :)

> 
> 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?
>>
> 

-- 
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

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Think about it...

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