Monday, 26 October 2009

N-body for free

Back in the day I wrote N-body code based on the Barnes-Hut algorithm. At the time you could get a GRAPE board to do the sums very fast:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_Pipe

Now it comes "free" in an iMac with a halfway decent graphic card:

http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/samplecode/OpenCL_NBody_Simulation_Example/index.html


Tuesday, 22 September 2009

Too much spare time?

Try

http://neverball.org/

to soak it up. I'm busy trying not to.

Thursday, 10 September 2009

And I thought that they were taking the ....

http://www.phenix-online.org/documentation/ligand_identification.htm

Says it will test 200 common ligands. Awesome!

Friday, 14 August 2009

So here's where the latest CCTBX can be found

Includes loads of neat stuff, source down at the bottom...

http://cci.lbl.gov/cctbx_build/all.html

Thursday, 13 August 2009

Home brew microcontroller

Want to play!

http://www.arduino.cc/

Thursday, 6 August 2009

When is H = h, k, l in reflecting position?

Start here!

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Circle-CircleIntersection.html

(pointer from Labelit source, more generally useful though)

Saturday, 1 August 2009

Might mouse scroll wheel stopped working :o(

So fix it!

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1537?viewlocale=en_US