Tech-X Corporation

July 6 -10, 2009 -- Tech-X Corporation invites you to visit us in Booth #20 at the 2009 SIAM Annual Meeting in Denver, CO.

We are proud to present the latest release of our electromagnetic plasma simulation software, VORPAL http://vorpal.txcorp.com. VORPAL 4.0 provides for the first time parallel and multi-core capability to the Windows platform (as with previous versions, VORPAL 4.0 also runs in parallel on the Linux and Macintosh platforms). Let VORPAL 4.0 help you take full advantage of your multi-core desktop computer. Other new capabilities include:

• cylindrical coordinates for electromagnetic simulation
• automated eigenfrequency and eigenmode extraction from time-domain simulation
• new secondary electron models that allow simulations of complex metallic and dielectric boundaries of arbitrary shape without stairsteps
• improved post-processing, including automated import into the VisIt software for advanced visualization

Stop by the booth to see a demonstration of any of these new features of VORPAL 4.0. Our technical staff will be available at the booth and will be happy to discuss the details of how VORPAL might fit your modeling needs.

We will also have a new release of GPULib, version 1.2.0, which includes enhanced supported for MATLAB.

Please see our SIAM talk schedule for topics and times when Tech-X personnel will be presenting talks.

May 18, 2009 -- Join Tech-X at the 17th IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference (PPC2009) June 28 – July 2, 2009 in Washington DC. Visit us in Booth 101.

May 18, 2009 -- Visit Tech-X at PhotonXpo 2009, The Exhibit At CLEO in Baltimore, Maryland from May 31 – June 5, 2009. Join us in Booth 1838.

May 18, 2009 -- See Tech-X at ICOPS, 36th International Conference on Plasma Science and 23rd Symposium on Fusion Engineering in San Diego May 31st - June 5th!

May 11, 2009 -- Tech-X Corporation of Boulder, Colorado, announced the release of VORPAL v4.0. VORPAL is a software framework that enables electromagnetic and electrostatic simulations composed of particles and fluids for 1-D, 2-D, and 3-D geometries. New capabilities will allow researchers to apply VORPAL in new application areas and enable more advanced simulations of the physics being studied. For more details, see the VORPAL press release or the VORPAL product page.

May 4, 2009 -- Please join us at PAC09, the Particle Accelerator Conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada May 4 - 8. Stop by and visit us in Booth 11.

March 27, 2009 -- Please join us at the World Wildlife Fund in Washington DC to learn more about GPULib and how you can use it with IDL and ENVI. Tech-X Corporation will be conducting a hands-on training session for GPULib starting at 5:00 PM on April 15. This will follow immediately after VISualize 2009, hosted by ITT Visual Information Solutions.

February 27, 2009 -- GPULib 1.0.8 has been released -- this version contains several bug fixes, as well as new licensing terms. See the GPULib product page for more information.

February 09, 2009 -- VORPAL has been instrumental in guiding design modifications of the proposed electron cooling system for the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory, providing substantial cost savings to the project. Complete details can be found in the VORPAL success story about BNL.

February 05, 2009 -- OOPIC Pro has been updated to version 2.0.2; users can download the evaluation or contact sales@txcorp.com for upgrade information for existing customers.

January 9, 2009 -- Tech-X is pleased to be collaborating with the University of Colorado at Boulder on two recently-announced lunar research grants. The grants, totaling $11 million, were awarded from NASA's Lunar Science Institute and focus on probing the cosmos from observatories on the moon and conducting science and safety investigations on the dusty lunar surface and its atmosphere.

November 18, 2008 -- We are pleased to announce the first major release of GPULib. This library allows scientists, engineers, and developers take advantage of GPU hardware to accelerate applications in a variety of languages, including IDL and MATLAB. For more information, see the GPULib product page or the GPULib development blog.

November 17, 2008 -- Tech-X Corporation announced that they have signed a reseller agreement with TAE SUNG ANST, Inc. to represent sales of their VORPAL product. This arrangement will provide better local support for customers in the Republic of Korea. For more details, please see the press release.

November 06, 2008 -- PhysOrg.com has an article about our research into accelerating heavy ions with laser-plasma interactions. This exciting work may eventually have application in cancer treatments.

September 03, 2008 -- Tech-X has released a new version of the cross-platform particle-in-cell simulation software OOPIC Pro. Version 2.0.0 adds several improvements to the application, including support for parallel computations on Linux platforms. For more information, please see the OOPIC Pro product page.

August 25, 2008 -- The magazine Computing in Science and Engineering is currently running a piece authored by several Tech-X researchers. The article by Alexander Pletzer, Douglas McCune, Stefan Maszala, Srinath Vadlamani, and Scott Kruger, "Exposing Fortran Derived Types to C and Other Languages" appears in the Scientific Programming section.

August 13, 2008 -- The definitive article on electron cooling simulations in VORPAL has been accepted for publication. The paper, "Simulating the dynamical friction force on ions due to a briefly co-propagating electron beam", can be viewed at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2008.06.019

July 17, 2008 – Tech-X Corporation was one of the recipients of a SciDAC award for visualization at the annual meeting of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program held in Seattle July 13–17. SciDAC held an Electronic Visualization and Poster night July 13 as part of its 2008 meeting. Fifty-two entries took part in the competition, and 10, including the Tech-X entry, won OASCR (for Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research) awards. Click here for more...

April 29, 2008 - An update of VorpalView has been released. You can download VorpalView 3.0.4 from the VorpalView product page.

February 21, 2008 - Tech-X Corporation announced the release of GPULib as a technology demonstration. This software library executes vectorized mathematical functions on graphics processing units (GPUs) from NVIDIA, bringing high-performance numerical operations to everyday desktop computers. More details can be found in the GPULib press release and the GPULib technology page.

February 19, 2008 - Tech-X Corporation announced the release of VORPAL v3.0. VORPAL is a software framework that enables plasma simulations composed of particles and fluids for 1-D, 2-D, and 3-D geometries. New capabilities will allow researchers to apply VORPAL in new application areas and enable more advanced simulations of the physics being studied. For more details, see the VORPAL press release or the VORPAL product page.

October 17, 2007 - Tech-X will be hosting a VORPAL User's Group meeting in Orlando, FL before the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics Meeting (APS DPP). Topics to be covered include input, visualization, as well as upcoming features and new calculations. If you are interested in attending, please RSVP by sending email to sales@txcorp.com.

June 15, 2007 - VORPAL v2.2 has been released. VORPAL is a software framework that enables plasma simulations composed of particles and fluids for 1-D, 2-D, and 3-D geometries. New capabilities will allow researchers to apply VORPAL in new application areas and enable more advanced simulations of the physics being studied. New capabilities include a re-architecting of the product documentation, as well as the ability to describe more complex geometries of physical problems and the addition of new physics capabilities. This release also provides support for the Intel-based Mac OS X platform. More information can be found on the VORPAL product page.

April 19, 2007 - TxPhysics 1.0.0 has been released by Tech-X. This physics library includes models for impact ionization of neutral gases by electrons and ions, field-induced tunneling ionization of atoms, ion range and stopping power in solids, ion-induced electron yield from solids, and secondary electron yields. The code is cross-platform, and the library functions can be called from C, Java, or Python. More information can be found on the TxPhysics technology page.