HRS eNews, July 2005 - Click here to go to on-line version


HRS eNews Table of Contents -- July 2005

Seminars

Significant upgrades

New Products

General

Mathematica

Maple 10

XGtd - Electromagnetics

Price increases

Finite element modelling

Mathematica 5.2

InventBetter Suite- Mechanical

Mathematica distribution

Personal web meetings

CalcCenter 3

Didger - Digitising

Mathcad 12 offer


Matlab OPC 2.0


Mathematica prizes


Endnote 9


Simulation consultancy


Remark 6.0


User Stories


NetCollect 3.1


Advertise Events


Intel Fortran 9.0


HRS Software Guide


Compaq Fortran to Intel


Enews Reader Survey



Seminars and Webinars

Exploring Mathematics and Science with Mathematica - A Wolfram Research Australasian Tour

Sarah Flannery is a former European Young Scientist of the Year and a published author. Her free lecture will provide a unique insight into the world of technical computing from the point of view of a young person who used Mathematica independently to broaden her understanding of mathematics and computer science. Sarah will demonstrate how Mathematica's design and key technologies mesh to make it the technical software of choice for a wide variety of applications. Following each presentation, Sarah will answer questions from the audience and share her insights as both a scientist and developer. Seminars are from 1-3 August in Auckland, Dunedin and Wellington. See here for details and to enrol.

Finite Element Modelling Seminar

Technic Solutions (Australia) and Hoare Research Software will present Multiphysics Modelling Seminars in Auckland and Christchurch on 23 and 24 August. The seminar will demonstrate modelling and analysing any physical phenomenon that can be described with partial differential equations in 1D, 2D or 3D plus time, using FEMLAB, MATLAB and Simulink. See details here. (Last minute note: we may also be in Wellington. Check the web site link to see latest options.)

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Personalised one-on-one Web meetings (Webinars)

We can perform demonstrations of most of our products at a time to suit you, while you watch us do it on your office computer screen. You see the presenter's computer screen on your computer, using the Internet, and listen to the presenter with a phone call. Not quite as good as being there, but we can easily show you the key aspects of the products. Mention it to any of our sales people, or contact Ray if you want to know how it works. The system we use does not require the installation of any programs, although Java must be enabled on your Web browser.


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Significant Upgrades

Maple 10

Major improvements have been made in many areas. There is an (optional) document mode that means you can avoid using commands. The equation editor allows you to use standard notation. You can include tolerances and units. New algorithms extend the range of differential equations that can be solved.

Statistical tools (including SPC) have been added. A compiler speeds numeric calculations.

See these and many other improvements at this link.

Upgrade pricing is now available for all old versions of Maple.

Special offer: 12 months maintenance is included at no charge in all single user Maple 10 licence purchases (new and upgrades) until 31st September 2005. Contact Marc

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Mathematica 5.2

This release concentrates on performance improvements. Mathematica now supports a 64-bit address space and multicore and multiprocessor environments, to handle the largest problems faster. Vectorisation adds even more speed. The computations can be performed on a computer separate from the notebook interface, through a secure shell environment, in situations where a faster machine is accessible through a network.

A notebook indexer works with desktop and Google search tools to instantly find relevant Mathematica documents.

See here for a full list of enhancements in this and previous releases.

Mathematica CalcCenter 3 (Was Calculation Center)

Data analysis is now up to 70 times faster and larger problems than ever before can be handled in the same memory. Other features include new-generation optimised numerical solvers for ordinary and partial differential equations, and allowing problems involving vectors and arrays to be specified by using a single variable, rather than having to enter an equation for each component. This makes problem specification and readability much easier.

Documents created in CalcCenter are fully portable between the Macintosh and Windows versions and can also be used with Mathematica Professional for Macintosh, Windows, Linux, or Unix.

See here to find out more. To discuss the new CalcCenter Site License contact Marc.

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Matlab OPC toolbox 2.0

The OPC Toolbox 2 includes blocks that let your Simulink model read and write data to and from an OPC server.

The OPC Toolbox uses specific quality values defined by the OPC Foundation. You can now work with numerical quality data, and with parts of that quality data, for decision control and other computing tasks in MATLAB and Simulink.

Endnote 9 is now available!

There are many new features in this version of the reference management program EndNote.

EndNote 9 is faster, adds compatibility with the track changes feature in Microsoft Word and you can share customized library settings with colleagues more easily. You can connect and search new types of library catalogues, and EndNote 9 expands the ways you can collect data from a wide variety of online resources. Contact Darrel.

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Remark 6.0

The interface for this mark recognition software has been completely updated. In addition to the new look and feel, you will find a task pane on the left side of every window to help you navigate the software.

The mark recognition tools have been updated to improve form processing accuracy. The statistical summary tool has been completely overhauled - you will still see your favorite reports, but with a new look and feel, plus some new reports.

A number of new features have been added to enhance support for the grading of tests.

Many more details have been added or changed - contact Darrel, or go here.

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NetCollect 3.1 (SurveyPro Internet Survey Add-on)

New features include the ability to l eave and resume surveys, data piping from an outside database or file, randomised questions within a grid or checkboxes within a scale, start and stop surveys automatically at a specified time or specified number of completions, instantly updated Online Executive Summary report, Headers & Footers and Progress bars, and script “throttling” to ensure extremely high volume surveys won’t slow down your web server.

Intel Fortran 9.0

The new compilers, for Windows and Linux, include additional support for multi-core platforms, new security features, 32-bit and 64-bit development in one package for the same price.

Compaq Visual Fortran Ceases

CVF is no longer being produced. Intel are providing a CVF to Intel crossgrade special pricing offer until the end of the year - contact Marc for details.

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New products

XGtd - a general purpose ray-based electromagnetic analysis tool

XGtd is a general purpose ray-based electromagnetic analysis tool suitable for radiation, antenna, and EMC applications. XGtd combines GTD, UTD, and Surface Rays to include all important diffraction mechanisms present in high frequency analysis of devices in the vicinity of complicated objects. The software is aimed toward the analysis of antennas on vehicles or aircraft, but is also suitable for anechoic chamber simulations. See here for more details or contact Darrel.

InventBetter Suite 2006

This product is a suite containing GrafiCalc 2006, ToleranceCalc 4.0, SectionCalc 4.0. It is ideal for anyone doing mechanical design calculations who needs to ensure that all the bits in a product are going to fit and work together. See here, or contact Marc.

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DIDGER - Advanced and versatile digitising program

Didger is a highly accurate digitizing program that will be an invaluable addition to your software library. In seconds, Didger precisely transforms points, lines, or areas from your paper maps, graphs, aerial photos, scanned raster images, imported vector files, or GeoTIFF images to a versatile digital format you can use with your other software. You name it and Didger can handle it quickly, accurately, and usefully. With Didger’s multitude of features and ease-of-use, this product can save you large amounts of time and effort. Contact Darrel.


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General

Price increases on almost all products

The recent fall in the New Zealand dollar against the USA one has inevitable consequences to our prices. If you are intending to buy, then we suggest you do so before the exchange rate shifts any more against you.

HRS is now the only Mathematica reseller in NZ

The other organisation that used to sell Mathematica in NZ has stopped selling this product here because of the small volume it was achieving. HRS will be happy to help any organisations who may have purchased elsewhere – contact Marc.

Mathcad 12 last upgrade offer!

This is the last chance offer for anybody with an old Mathcad to upgrade to Mathcad 12 regardless of which version for NZ$540 + GST (saving up to $300). This offer is only available for the period 1st July to 12th August

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Mathematica Student Prizes

At the end of 2004 and in early 2005 HRS and Wolfram Research supplied copies of Student Mathematica to the NZ Mathematics Enrichment Trust as prizes for 6 sucessive monthly competitions. See here for details of the competition and the winners' names. We wish all the competitors, and especially the prizewinners, every success with their future careers.

Simulation consultancy

Would a simulation of your plant or systems benefit your business, but you have not done it because you do not have the staff who can implement it? HRS is happy to recommend an Australian consultancy company with a great deal of experience to work with you on your task. They have industrial simulation experience on major projects around the World. Contact Ray in the first instance.

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User Stories

If you have any newsworthy user stories related to our products that you think our customers would be interested in reading, please contact Leon.

Advertising your events on the HRS Website

If we sponsor your event, or your delegates are likely to be using one of our products, contact Leon to place details of your conference on our website.

HRS Software Guide

If you want or any of your colleagues would like a copy of our 64 page Software Guide sent to you, please contact Leon or call 0800 477 776.

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