Download Nano-Hive 1.2.0 beta 1

Nano-Hive is a modular simulator for modeling a physical world at the nanometer level. The program can be used stand-alone, but can also be integrated into other applications, such as CAD applications. If you have become curious what you can do with this, you can go on this page see some examples. The developers have released the first beta version of Nano-Hive 1.2.0 enabling full distributed computing. The included release notes are as follows:

Hello!

We’re happy to announce that Nano-Hive version 1.2.0 Beta 1 for win32-x86 is now available for download. *nix distros will be made available in the coming weeks.

The main feature of this beta release is that Nano-Hive is now fully distributable across computing networks (DC). Note that this release is not the @home-style DC client – that client, based on the BOINC ( platform, will be made available early 2006 – this release is mainly for dedicated DC networks.

Other features of this release include:

• SocketsPIC_Control – This Distributed PIC Control plugin controls slave Nano-Hive instances via sockets, and transfers work units to/from them via FTP, or NFS.
• AIREBO – This Physical Interaction plugin employs the Adaptive Intermolecular Reactive Empirical Bond Order (AIREBO) potential is an extension of the REBO potential (used by the REBO_MBM plugin) that adds non-bonded intermolecular interactions, and four-body torsional interaction.
• nanorexMMP_ImportExport – This Data Import/Export plugin handles nanoENGINEER-1’s MMP file format. Along with this, the mmpShaft atom set type was introduced, allowing nE-1 users to easily specify atom sets for use with Nano-Hive.
• Added linear force and rotary force activators to the pathing system. These new activators provide a more realistic way to activate molecular machines than the original constant velocity pathing mechanism (which still has great value and still exists.)
• Added the BoxedSet simulation specification atom set descriptor for use in pathing atoms and molecules. With this descriptor, the user can simply specify two opposite points of a box and all the atoms inside become an atom set.
• Switched threading, sockets, and mutexes from the Common C++ library to the Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) libraryand added a homegrown StringTokenizer class.
• Alpha 4 of the HiveKeeper Graphical User Interface for Nano-Hive is included with this release. The new capabilities of this alpha version include:
  • Support for multiple local and remote Nano-Hive (NH) instances
  • A simulation summary tab for each NH instance
  • A Physical Interaction Calculator (PIC), ie, NH slave instances summary tab for each DC network
  • A visualization more recent macro, vdW representation, and variable playback speed for the simulation visualization frame

Thank you,
Brian Helfrich
Nano Hive Team