NEWS
National Instruments hails NIWeek as a success
National Instruments has reported the successful completion of the 16th annual NIWeek graphical system design conference and exhibition. Speaking to a record crowd of more than 3,000 engineers and scientists, NI executives and engineers demonstrated new products and technologies which, the company says, help users to increase efficiency and productivity while reducing costs. Dr James Truchard, president, CEO and cofounder of NI, opened the event by outlining the ways in which NI is taking advantage of advances in computing to
deliver an ecosystem of highly- integrated software and hardware, increasing performance while decreasing cost, complexity and the time spent getting solutions to market. He explained how well- integrated tools such as LabView and CompactRio deliver the efficiency customers need so they have more time to create real solutions that address the world’s engineering challenges. Alongside Truchard and the other NI executives, NI engineers demonstrated projects that are in-development, including product concepts for using mobile devices and cloud
Aircraft seat designer applies simulation to improve comfort
Contour Premium Aircraft Seating has used Altair Engineering’s HyperWorks enterprise simulation suite to help the design of superior passenger comfort solutions. Contour is using several elements of the HyperWorks suite, including: HyperMesh and HyperView for finite element pre and post- processing, OptiStruct for structural optimisation, and MotionView and MotionSolve for multi-body dynamics simulation.
‘Having prior career experience with HyperWorks, when I moved to Contour to help improve their finite element analysis (FEA)
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capabilities, it was a natural choice to recommend the CAE suite,’ said Huw Jones, senior stress engineer for Contour Premium Aircraft Seating. ‘We started off using HyperMesh for pre-processing tasks. After realising the model building efficiencies gained from the software, we expanded its use considerably. HyperMesh is the quickest and most flexible FE pre-processor that we’ve ever used; in fact one of our engineers who had more than 10 years’ experience with an alternate solution was able to complete model creation tasks significantly quicker in HyperMesh and that’s including the training period!’
computing technologies for real- time, distributed data acquisition. The team also demonstrated the new LabView FPGA compile farm toolkit and LabView FPGA cloud compile service beta, which will make it possible for engineers to assign FPGA-compiling tasks to remote servers. Other demonstrations showed new driver technologies for facilitating hardware support across multiple operating systems including Mac and Linux, advanced RF measurement technology and a PXI multi-chassis communication protocol for high-performance computing.
IN BRIEF
l Altair Engineering has announced the addition of Epsilon Structural Analysis to the company’s channel programme as a UK reseller of the HyperWorks virtual simulation suite.
l Accelerated Technology Laboratories (ATL) has appointed Andia as an ATL Certified Sales Agent in Colombia, where it will market and sell ATL’s Sample Master LIMS and laboratory automation solutions.
l LMS International has acquired Emmeskay, a provider of advanced simulation technology solutions for model-based systems engineering (MBSE).
l Thermo Fisher Scientific has extended its reach across Central Europe by making Swiss-based Vialis the latest member of its Informatics Global Partner Alliance.
l The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT will license ChemAxon’s chemistry software platform, discovery toolkits and desktop
applications for institute-wide use.
Bioinformatics platform developed through
collaboration
Apticraft Systems, a US-based bioinformatics company, has announced the successful completion of a module for Primer Premier, a project assigned by Premier Biosoft International, USA. ‘Primer Premier 6.00 has been developed to enable users to design highly specific PCR and SNP genotyping assays,’ explained Shonali Paul, director of Apticraft Systems. ‘The powerful algorithm implemented also enables the use of well proven primers, and it designs a compatible set given any one primer,’ he added. The algorithm employed by the program avoids homology, and performs the templating of secondary structure regions. The company states that this approach provides specificity to the primers used.
‘Although the software interface design was challenging, the goal was to make it user-friendly. Scientists at Apticraft were able to overcome the challenge through extensive domain research including the study of scientific publications, communication with users and several rounds of rigorous testing to output the best oligos,’ commented Paul. ‘Primer Premier 6 is a powerful tool for designing highly specific standard PCR assays. We are committed to keeping pace with the needs of research and rely on Apticraft for architecting complex algorithms,’ commented Kay Brown, vice president for business development and marketing.
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